This document features images and descriptions of masks from various cultures around the world. Masks shown come from indigenous groups in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and others. The masks serve ceremonial, ritualistic, theatrical, and folkloric purposes and represent a wide variety of styles, designs, and materials.

2. Kwakiutl Masks –
Vancouver Island,
Canada
Mexican Tastoanes mask
Santa Cruz de las Huerta,
Jalisco, Mexico
Haitian Tiger mask
Carnival, Haiti
Diablo Mask
Masks from the False Face Guatemala
Society of the Iroquois
(Haudenosaunee) Indians. Hopi bird mask
This asymmetrical mask Northern Arizona, USA
was made from a carving
the design into a tree.

3. Rabbit mask
Chiriguanos Indians,
Paraguay
Pig mask
Central Huaco mask
Amazon, Latacunga, Ecuador
Moreno mask
Brazil
Morenada
dance,
La Paz, Bolivia
Brazilian Parrot mask
Carnival, Brazil,
South America
White Man mask Wool mask
Wichi people, Peru
Northern Argentina

4. Fipa mask
Fipa people, Tanzania Lovely Lady
mask
Mandingo
people, Guinea
Dan Gagon mask
Dan people, Kuba Mask
Ivory Coast Kuba people,
or Liberia, Congo
West Africa
Gelede Mask
Yoruba people,
Nigeria Helmet mask
Bambara
people, Mali
Bird mask
Bobo people,
Burkina Fasso Akan mask
Ghana, West Africa

5. Japanese Kongo
Mask Japan
Puppet head
Burma
Old monk mask
Pyolsandae dance,
Yangju, South Korea Maonan Nuo
Vietnamese tribal mask mask
Thai Phi Ta mask Huanjiang,
Central Highlands, Vietnam Dan Sai, Loe, Guangxi,
Mongolian mask Thailand SW China
Mongolia

6. Raksha Longo mask
Demon mask
Red Hanuman mask Bhutan
Yakun Natima
India ritual, Sri Lanka
Hindu Festival Mahakala mask
Mask Buddhist ceremonies,
India Tibet
Kapala turtle shell mask
Himalayas

7. Morione mask
Marinduque, Philippines
Rare tribal mask
Mortlock Islands, Micronesia
Shamans mask
Malagan Mask Iban people, Borneo Javanese dance mask
New Ireland, Java, Indonesia
South Pacific Australian Aboriginal Mask
Massim Mask
Trobriand
Island,
Papa New
Guinea
Patih Demung mask
Bali, Indonesia

8. European Folk mask
Parau, Romania
Traditional Decorative Folk mask Roitschaeggaetae mask
English Bulgaria Loetsch Valley, Wallis Canton,
mask Switzerland
Venetian Bird mask
Venice, Italy Buso mask
Carnival mask Greek Theater Decorative mask Hungary
Valencia, Spain Masks Bavaria, Germany Carnival mask
NE Portugal
Krampus mask
Austria