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<p>[QUOTE="Marote, post: 9794030, member: 84568"]Couldn't resist using this title after reading this</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here's mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]485534[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485535[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485536[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485537[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485538[/ATTACH]</p><p>I think this will have been used in the rite of ... passage through a village by a tourist, where said tourist buys this as a gift, and the receiving party ends up giving this to charity, and I end up buying it ...</p><p><br /></p><p>But I am curious to know ...</p><p>if it's possible to tell where this comes from (or is 'Mexico/Central America' the best possible description?) and/or</p><p>if this is a specific figure (Tecun Uman, as some sellers with fairly similar masks say?) and/or</p><p>if this is 90s vintage (as some sellers describe similar items) or made a week ago? (well, a bit older than that, as I bought it approx. 5 years ago)</p><p><br /></p><p>And with Google I only find masks with a bird and a snake, or two birds next to each other, or just one bird, but I haven't been able to find one with two birds like mine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marote, post: 9794030, member: 84568"]Couldn't resist using this title after reading this And here's mine: [ATTACH=full]485534[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485535[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485536[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485537[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]485538[/ATTACH] I think this will have been used in the rite of ... passage through a village by a tourist, where said tourist buys this as a gift, and the receiving party ends up giving this to charity, and I end up buying it ... But I am curious to know ... if it's possible to tell where this comes from (or is 'Mexico/Central America' the best possible description?) and/or if this is a specific figure (Tecun Uman, as some sellers with fairly similar masks say?) and/or if this is 90s vintage (as some sellers describe similar items) or made a week ago? (well, a bit older than that, as I bought it approx. 5 years ago) And with Google I only find masks with a bird and a snake, or two birds next to each other, or just one bird, but I haven't been able to find one with two birds like mine.[/QUOTE]
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