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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10321028, member: 8267&quot;]I suspect your mask is a tourist craft. It looks like it is made from the fruit of the calabash tree, <i>Crescentia cujete</i>, which grows throughout the Caribbean and other tropical places in the Americas. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]518738[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://flonatureblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/calabash-tree/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://flonatureblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/calabash-tree/" rel="nofollow">https://flonatureblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/calabash-tree/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescentia_cujete" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescentia_cujete" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescentia_cujete</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The National Cultural Foundation of Barbados (NCF) has a series of 3 videos about the history, lore and use of the calabash on Barbados and the wider Caribbean. I didn&#039;t get a chance to watch them all but they might be of interest, with some relevant&nbsp; information.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TheNCFBarbados/search?query=calabash" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.youtube.com/@TheNCFBarbados/search?query=calabash" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@TheNCFBarbados/search?query=calabash</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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