Mask Collection (page 8)

Piaroas ceremonial masks. 1960. Venezuela
Piaroas ceremonial masks: Spirit of the Forest (Redyo), monkey and Peccary mask. 1960. Venezuela. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The Man With the Broken Nose (Mas
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). French sculptor. The Man With the Broken Nose (Mask). Bronze. Before (1918).1862-63. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Maria Theresa of Austria with the Grand Dauphin by Mignard
Maria Theresa of Austria with the Grand Dauphin by Pierre Mignard. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Pre-Columbian Art. Colombia. Calima (LLama) culture. Gold funerary mask. 5th1st century BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Temple of Ramses III. Relief depicting fencing fight with sticks. The fighters are wearing protective masks. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

Native American costume, medicine men
Native American Indian, three medicine men, two with masks and masquerade dresses, and one man dressed as a bird. When men die

WW1 / 1915 / GAS HELMETS
British soldier in anti-gas helmet - gas mask Date: 1915

Air stewardess demonstrating oxygen mask on board a passenger plane. Date: circa 1970s

WW2 poster, In a raid, keep your gas mask always with you
WW2 Civil Defence poster, In a raid, keep your gas mask always with you. Date: early 1940s

War mask pongdudu, made by Boa people (Congo). Used to engender fear in the enemy and served during war and dances. African art. Decorative Arts. BELGIUM. FLANDERS. BRABANT. Tervuren

Mask. Bembe Art (Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania). African art. Sculpture on wood. BELGIUM. FLANDERS. BRABANT. Tervuren

The Candid Friend by Bruce Bairnsfather
The Candid Friend " Well, yer know, I like the photo of you in your gas mask best" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916

Man wearing Venice Carnival Jester Costume, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Person wearing Venice Carnival Costume, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Couple wearing Venice Carnival Costumes, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Venice Carnival Costumes
People wearing costumes at the Venice Carnival, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Brotherhood of the Misericordia of Florence, Italy, a charitable institution dating back to the Middle Ages. Seen here transporting a sick man. Masks are worn to preserve anonymity

Human torpedo in action by G. H. Davis
A human torpedo in action: a two-man crew working together to sink an enemy warship during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Cover design, Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet by C Collodi, translated from the Italian by M A Murray, illustrated by Charles Folkard. Showing three wooden puppets framed by theatrical curtains

Gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops, Volhynia, WW1
A gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops of the Landwehr Reserve Batallion at Volhynia (Wolhynien) on the eastern front in north-west Ukraine during the First World War. Date: 14 October 1916

Advertisement for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics -- two female models posing (Anne Wilkie and Geraldine Hill). 1959

Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle (1925)
Italian Movie Actor Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) - seen here in the role of Vladimir Dubrovsky, a Cossack in the Russian Army in the silent film The Eagle (1925). Date: 1925

The Guitarist, by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760). A young woman plays a guitar, accompanied by two Harlequins, possibly a scene from the Commedia dell Arte

Carthaginian mask. Carthaginian art. SPAIN. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia. Proc: SPAIN. IBIZA. Puig des Molins

Jade mask of bat god. Maya art. Sculpture. Proc: MEXICO. OAXACA. Monte Alb n

LFCDA-LFB Recruits undergoing basic training
Located at Southwark Bridge Road, SE1, the London Fire Brigade Training School is responsible for providing basic training to all its recruit firefighters

GLC-LFB Damaged compressed air BA sets
The compressed air set of a firefighter caught in a flashover during a fire, showing the heat and smoke damage caused to the set and the obscuring of the face mask by the heat damage

French Theatre / Beronte
Beronte ( receleur ) A character from L Intrigue des Filous by Claude de Lestoille. Date: 1689

Wedding Gas Mask
A bridesmaid has a novel wedding gas mask container decorated with silver paper at a wedding in Sidcup in Kent during World War II in 1939

Hat & Mask in One 1929
Dual purpose headwear: cloche hat worn so low over the eyes that it doubles as a mask. Eyeholes are cut in the crown. Perfect hat for hiding upper facial flaws

Lady on a Lobster
A woman in a green dress with a black mask across her bare chest rides a red lobster side saddle

Com. Dell arte Trivelino
Trivelino, playing the mandolin

Powdering a Wig C18
A French coiffeur powders his customers new wig. The customer is wearing a protective mask with eye holes cut out !

Harlequin / Eller
Thomas Eller as Harlequin

Victorian Scrap - Circus Harlequinade - Harlequin and Columbine, with a clown in the background. late 19th century

The War Budget - Tommies in gas masks
Front cover of The War Budget. Two British soldiers amuse a young woman when returning home on leave by sporting a gas mask. Date: 1916

Anti-nuclear power demonstration, Cornwall
Anti-nuclear power protest in Cornwall, with one protester wearing a gas mask and white protective suit. Date: 1970s

The Lavender Shawl by Sogata
Depiction of Venice during the carnival with masked revellers emerging from a gondola. 1930

The Roman Pulcinella of the Piazza Navona. The commedia dell arte character is shown in five scenes: winning the lottery, reconciling with his enemy, drinking wine, reading up on politics

Madame La Vie removes her mask to reveal her real identity, much to the shock of her companion. 1926

Old Maid card game - The Deep Sea Diver. circa 1950s

Pochoir print - Fancy Dress Party Masked Ball

Advertisement, Birmingham Empire Theatre, Moss Empires Ltd, Managing Director R H Gillespie. Showing Pierrot and Columbine taking a bow. 1926

Tibetan dancers, Hotel Mount Everest, Himalayas. Date: circa 1930

German poison- gas 1915
Diagrams of various kinds of apparatus employed by Germans. 1915

Garland sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman period, 3rd century CE. Decorated with floral garlands and deities. The open-mouthed mask indicates that the sarcophagus is from Asia Minor

Pas Seul - A dancer much admired on the dancefloor
Pas Seul (a dance for one person) - A dancer (who has shed her balck mask) much admired on the dancefloor... Date: 1905

Despatch-riders wearing gas-masks under their steel helmets
Two despatch-riders looking at their map at one of the villages on the British front near Salonika. Wearing gas-masks under their steel helmets to protect them against the fumes from Bulgarian gas

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