***Three Vintage Mexican Carved Masks!***

Description

As a college student in Texas during the 90's I was very into Frida Kahlo.  I was enamored of Latin American authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and was always using the term "magical realism." I loved textiles from Guatemala and would always use my last couple of dollars to buy huipil.  This was long before the concept of cultural appropriation emerged.  I chose these 3 masks because they seemed related to some themes I was exploring in my lit crit classes.  The larger mask looks like a princess kissing a frog. Any English majors reading this will recognize the significance.  The 2 small coconut masks are bright and dark heroines.  The pale one, sweet, non-threatening, blonde, obedient, young, associated with water, etc. The livid pink one with arrows shooting from her warlike pony tails is a dark heroine: fiery, a fighter, angry, perhaps a witch or man eater. The arrows remind me of the symbol for males: the circle with an arrow. These were figures encountered in lots of stories from around the world.