[hrap/mex] The Mask
During our stay in Mexico we made a visit to see a museum of masks on July 22. Bill Levasseur founded this museum and still runs it with his wife. They named the museum, La Otra Cara de Mexico which means, The Other Face of Mexico. This museum is open to the public right behind Bill's house. When we entered the museum, everything was very nice. They had a variety of masks that represented different dances and other things. One mask represented a very popular dance called, Baila Vieja (old man dance). The masks for this dance was never painted. The hair is from the bark of mulberry trees and wrinkled skin is carved into the mask. The dance consists of an elderly man and woman. These dances are from different indigenous groups in Mexico. This dance is from the Chontal indigenous group. Of course there were more masks that I noted about but this seemed very essential to state because it represented the elderly of Mexico. This museum really showed another side of Mexico that I did not see. I guess thats how it got it's name.
