
Sujet
Oruro Mask, Bolivia Artist: Unknown.
Légende
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.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon
Notre référence
HRM19B84_226
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
55,9Mo (2,1Mo) / 30,7cm x 45,6cm / 3629 x 5383 (300dpi)