Title: Mexican masks /
Authors: Cordry, Donald Bush.
Date: 1980
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Physical description: xxiv, 280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Contents: Foreword / by Peter T. Furst. -- Introduction: Masks -- Faces of Mexico. -- pt. I. The mask. -- The mask as art. -- Iconography. -- Mask design. -- Regional styles. -- pt. II. The making of masks. -- Links to the past. -- Mask-makers. -- Mask materials. -- pt. III. The significance and function of the Mexican mask. -- Shamanism. -- Symbolism. -- Social uses of masks. -- Appendix: A survey of mask-makers.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Indian masks--Mexico.; Masks--Mexico.