Image · EFMA·IMG·11142

Diablada mask (Wellcome L0044849)

n.d. · Bolivia

2400 × 1594 pxView original ↗

Bolivian mask of the kind made for the Devil Dance of the Oruro carnival. Such masks typically depict snakes, toads, lizards and winged serpents, beings associated with the devil and damp places.

Date

n.d.

Place

Bolivia

In the encyclopedia

Diablada ↗Festivals ↗

Collection

Masks of Bolivia (Wellcome Collection)

Format

AVIF

Licence

CC BY 4.0

Credit

Unknown author

Source

commons.wikimedia.org ↗

No.

EFMA·IMG·11142

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