Yupik Masks In the past there were two types of shamans, the good and the bad. The good ones were healers, leaders, song makers, dance composers and ask the spirit for a good hunting season. The Shaman either has a dream and carve what they dreamt about or tell a carver to carve it. Then they dance with the mask for that one dance and said they threw the masks away. The spirits were everywhere. They danced for the spirit as an offering. There are any kinds of masks. There is the story; the masks are the masks that tell a story on the rings. They show how that thing became what it is. The dream mask is the mask that has a weird melted look. It is what the shaman dreams about when he is sleeping. The animal masks are the mask make to ask …show more content…
the spirit for a good hunting season or also can tell a story. But the animal masks are to ask for a hunting season. Masks are super fun to watch for kids and other ages.
They can dance for hours and it feel like you were only there for fifteen minutes. Dancing is like an exercise because you are putting Making a mask is a long process that needs a lot of tools. The curved knife is one of them. They use draft wood because when it’s in the water for a long period of time the wood becomes light. When the mask becomes light it’s easier for the dancer to hold the mask with his mouth. After they carve the mask they paint it with a clay from Nelson Island. The clay from Nelson Island is a wonderful substance that we used for many many years. The clay makes the colors look so realistic and the paint actually covers up the details that the carver puts in the mask. The masks have rings around them that represent the universe. Hanging from the rings are the appendages that usually tell as tory about the mask. The appendages tell the story about the mask, they move around when The Yupik masks are usually used during festivals. They look really good when being used. They use them in special festivals, or when someone important is in there presents. When they are being used they don’t have a string around the mask to be
held, there is a mouthpiece so they can hold it in their mouth. After they are used they said they threw the mask away in the trash because they are never used more then once. Other sources said they gave them to their kids to play with but we really don’t know. But the masks were said to be found thrown away so someone took them and put them in a museum. They found so many masks, people said they used to out there masks out in the tundra after there are used so they can be part of the earth again. So they think that the person to found the mask stole it from them. The pair of Beaver masks carved by George Bunyan but collected by Elma Milotte in Hooper Bay in 1946. He collected the masks for a Disney movie called Alaskan Eskimo; he was filming for 3 months. Masked dances were forbidden for awhile but the people didn’t care. They continued to dance then sooner or later they let them dance again. Alfred Milotte bought 24 masks then later sold them to the Alaska State Museum. The Hooper Bay masks might best be referred to as the Bunyan masks, as they form a distinct set bearing his personal stamp. Most were animal request mask, and they include no fearsome Tuunrat (spirit helpers) or creatures with wide, toothy grins, no nepcetat or powerful transformation mask. Then you see a pair of masks the masks mean balance. Some pairs highlight In the future the way we will preserve our masks in the future will be a weird way. They will cover the mask in a matte plastic so they can last longer and put them in a museum but give the village half of that museum. It will be a great way to keep them forever and the future generation can learn about their culture. Another way we can keep the masks last longer is with a cool box that keeps the mask looking like they are brand new, the box wont have any oxygen.
The basket was used to catch the falling heads. In the early revolution Richard Clark said that originally a wicker basket lined with an oil cloth had been used to catch the head. Later on a metal bucket was used to prevent the blood from flowing through the streets. Since they guillotined so any people the bucket became a necessity to have. Along with this it helped to prevent the smell of death in the streets.
In William Golding’s “Lord Of The Flies”, a group of boys is stranded on an island that completely changes them. The boys turn totally different from how they act from society as if they were putting on masks. It’s not just the boys that wear masks, but a lot of people try to hide from other people. What a mask does is that it hides a person’s trait and shows something completely different. I have made a mask like one of the boys, Ralph, that tries to show that he’s a leader, but hides a different personality. Here are some of the qualities of my mask.
be wearing it to cover up his horns (357). In addition, the story describes how careful he is when
A mask makes one unknown, unrecognized, and mysterious. When the first mask was put on, Jack "looked no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger" (Golding page #). At the formation of Jack's tribe, all who join wear a mask from that time on and become a part of the savages. As three savages return to steal fire, they are driven because they are "demoniac figures with faces of white and red" (Golding page #) not individual boys. The mask becomes such an anonymous symbol that, towards the end of the story, Ralph "gazed at the green and black mask before him trying to remember what Jack looked like" (Golding page #). Whether stealing, fighting, or hunting, the savages found their courage because they "looked like something else" "hidden behind the mask of paint" (Golding page #).
Fifth, a consequence for those who rebel. And lastly, a realization of a character, the audience, or both that the society portrayed is not perfect. As a brief run-down of the film, we first meet a quiet boy named Lucius Hunt. He was very good friends with a special needs boy named Noah Percy. In the beginning of the movie, Lucius asks the elders of the village for permission to go to the village to get medicine to help Noah. The elders refuse and life continues on. It seems to the audience that there is a line that is beside the Covington woods. The people are not allowed to pass the line because there are “the people who we don’t speak of” that wear red cloaks. The elders of the village dress up as the people in red and come into the town one night and mark the doors in red and kill livestock and skin them. The village people do not know that these people are the elders. Life goes on and Lucius and Ivy have decided to get married. Ivy is Noah’s love and Noah gets upset. Noah stabs Lucius until Lucius is barely living. Ivy, who is blind, travels into the woods through Covington woods. By now, Ivy’s father has told Ivy that the people in red are fake. Ivy sets off into the
Though a mask may just be a paper cut out, a molded piece of plastic, or in the Lord of the Flies, a painted face, they all have the same ability to create a feeling of freedom from responsibility. They may make they wearer feel more important or powerful and too good for work, leading to a lack of fulfillment of their responsibility. This belief in freedom from responsibility is best exemplified by Jack, the first one on the island to begin wearing a mask. He used a mask because he felt it gave him power and skill, giving him reason to take up hunting as a prime responsibility, opposed to keeping the fire going. In their...
his appearance and wears different masks to tune up to different people. His first mask is the one
Traditionally, Chinese face masks were used in folk art performances before the Song Dynasty, which eventually transform into a facial paint masks in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. During the Qing Dynasty the arrival of European culture and the opera provided a way to merge Chinese and European culture in the use of painted folk art facial masks. The meaning of the mask focuses on the heart and soul of the mythological or fictional character being represented on the stage. In this manner, the design and color of the mask imbues a powerful sense of emotive and symbolic meaning for the audience to observe in the actions of the performers. Certainly, the “heart and soul” of painted facial mask defines the foundation of Chinese folk art culture to project a profound sense of drama in the Beijing Opera medium. In essence, these are the important aspects of the meaning of the Beijing Opera painted facial mask, which define the powerful emotive and cultural transmission of folk art into the modern setting of the European-styled
The mask is a form of deception or illusion. Sometimes, it can be worn as both. It hides the true emotions of slaves, keeping the slave master from knowing what is going on in their minds. The mask also allows the slave to have an identity without the master’s detection. The mask gives the illusion that the slave is exactly how the masters believe, ignorant, incapable of true emotion, and unable to think for themselves.
Speaker. I am a shaman. The MIT Press, Clinton, Massachusetts. 1967. The.
Shaman are known in many cultures, but are identified by different names: healers, spiritual healers, medicine men, angakok, ganga, mulogo, witch doctors and warlords, just to name a few. However, this does not mean that all Shamans will hold the same beliefs, they may be good or evil, but they do receive their paranormal powers in many forms, some receive them thru visions or trances. Shamanism is humanity's oldest form of relationship to the Spirit. But it is not a religion. Given the various traditions of Native American people, shamanism takes in a diverse range of methods for collecting knowledge.
The mask he wears could also be the link between actor and character. This is a similar idea in Six Characters as well with the fact that it is a blurred line often between who the actor is and who the character in the play is.
of the use of the mask, gave no illusion that this story is happening before
so I smiled, but he poked out /His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.” (Cullen 6-8).” He was aware of racism but was startled to receive racism from some so young and looked just like him. 4. Why does the narrator mean when stating that we all wear mask?