Mexican Ceramic Hanging Mask Folk Art Pottery Collectible Hand Made w Frog

Description

Hanging Decorative Ceramic Mask from Mexico.
Height- 9"
Wide- 7 1/4"
The face is hand painted and hand formed.
This mask will be great at any home, office or as a special gift.
It is a wonderful piece of Mexican folk art.
In pre Colombian and Mesoamerican culture, a goddess known as Ceneotl, the patron of childbirth and fertility, who took the form of a frog or a toad with many udders. Also, frogs and toads were considered spirits of rain, and were used in many rituals intended to bring the rains. The Aymara tribe of Peru and Bolivia made small frog images, which they placed on hilltops, to call down the rain. Indeed, if the rains failed, some tribes blamed the toads for withholding the rain, and would lash them in punishment.
The early Aztecs saw the toad as Tlaltecuhti, the earth mother goddess, who embodied the endless cycle of death and rebirth.