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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9576298, member: 2844"]Welcome Coven.</p><p>Your mask could be a 19th century Tamang, a Bön Shaman's mask from Nepal. Bön is the Shamanic pre-Buddhist religion of the Himalayas. Later Buddhist elements were mixed in, and likewise it influenced Himalayan Buddhism.</p><p>Tamang masks are often carved from a wood fungus, which is the look yours has.</p><p>They originally had fur and feathers attached to them, which were lost over time, leaving a very rough but expressive mask.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/item/1232324-a-group-of-six-nepalese-shamanic-tamang-wooden-masks-19th-20th-c/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/item/1232324-a-group-of-six-nepalese-shamanic-tamang-wooden-masks-19th-20th-c/" rel="nofollow">https://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/item/1232324-a-group-of-six-nepalese-shamanic-tamang-wooden-masks-19th-20th-c/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one was sold on Catawiki, but it is a dead link:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]461232[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9576298, member: 2844"]Welcome Coven. Your mask could be a 19th century Tamang, a Bön Shaman's mask from Nepal. Bön is the Shamanic pre-Buddhist religion of the Himalayas. Later Buddhist elements were mixed in, and likewise it influenced Himalayan Buddhism. Tamang masks are often carved from a wood fungus, which is the look yours has. They originally had fur and feathers attached to them, which were lost over time, leaving a very rough but expressive mask. [URL]https://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/item/1232324-a-group-of-six-nepalese-shamanic-tamang-wooden-masks-19th-20th-c/[/URL] This one was sold on Catawiki, but it is a dead link: [ATTACH=full]461232[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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