Mid-Century Carved and Painted Mexican Festival Mask with Rattle Headpiece woman with flag and pyrography kits were sold

and pyrography kits were sold through various mail-order sources including the Sears catalog and advertisements in women’s magazines

I think these earrings (while difficult to photograph) are fantastic

is a wonderful blend of haute and homespun

4 3/8" long

and a hole at the center of the back

Mid-Century Carved and Painted Mexican Festival Mask with Rattle Headpiece woman with flag and pyrography kits were soldI am not at all on expert on Mexican dance and festival masks, but I certainly admire them in their vast and fantastic variety! I am pretty sure this one dates to the 1950s or so, and believe it would be referred to as a Moro mask, representing a Spanish colonial in the dance of the Christians and Moors. (And, with the red cheeks, exaggerated features and horn like pieces at the temples, rather mockingly I'd think.) The striped piece sticking straight