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Indigenous people all over the world have a special place in their religious beliefs for animals. Both the animals they hunted for food and the predators in their environment, with which they held a special connection since they too were hunters. This is most ideally portrayed in the exhibit vaguely identified as the “Face Mask with Articulated Jaw,” at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts -- Lee Malone Gallery.
This eerie mask consists of a hollowed out wood and metal dreary face and is framed by three long feet of auburn colored hair, this captures both a certain sense of fear and reverence for nature and mask. This headdress was once a part of a dramatic and elaborate costume worn by a masquerader, who depicted an aggressive nature spirit sent by the ancestors of the family. These masqueraders, mainly of patrilineage decent, planned masquerades, cared for the masks, and successfully maintained the secrets of the masks to their graves, until recently.
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