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Tigre mask Guerrero, Mexico 13 inches, painted Throughout Mexico one finds dances about fearsome man-eating tigres (jaguars), which may be holdovers from before the Spanish conquest. In preColumbian traditions these dances had the purpose of petitioning the jaguar god, the lord of all animals, so that he would permit successful hunting for the villagers. This one has a particularly naive, folk art look. SOLD
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