Title

Oruro Mask, Bolivia. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

Oruro Mask, Bolivia. Mask from the Oruro region of Bolivia. La Diablada or Oruro Diablada is a typical Andean masked dance to appease the evil spirits. The slow movements represent the toil of the black slaves who worked the mines, often with little food or water. Their masks have enormous bulging eyes depicting the slaves? inability to breathe at such high altitude.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon

Reference

HRM19B84_227

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

56,0Mb (1,8Mb) / 12,0in x 18,1in / 3612 x 5415 (300dpi)

Keywords

South America face mask eyes mountain range pipe body Carnival continent eye geography color colour colourful smoking South American location century Andes artefact artifact Bolivia slavery Andean tobacco pipe 20th century CM Dixon geographical feature TGN the body object Oruro diablada Unknown Dixon CM CM Dixon Mike Dixon CM Dixon object