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Not A Mask 'no eye holes'; All Leather!? Curious? | Folk Art338 of 975 |  |  |
Posted 1 year ago
lokiddo
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Not sure if it's native art, or sort of a spiritual type piece, but we sure would like to find out. You know it's the "curiosity and cat thing" This seems to be nothing but a sheet of pretty thick leather, that it has been shaped and dried to a point that it has absolutely no give or flexibility whatsoever. It's really lifelike. Does any one have any idea what it is that we're looking at? I think it's really quite intriguing.
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Looks like something made on the islands. Maybe Haiti, Jamaica,Dominican Republic or lesser Antilles.
Search under leather sculptures.
There's a French site here:
http://www.cuiretsculpture.com/galerie-d-art.html
This is so cool! we're getting closer to knowing what we've got!
They are called haitian leather masks.