Mid-Century Carved and Painted Mexican Festival Mask with Rattle Headpiece wooden soldiers the painting pretty much completely

the painting pretty much completely dissolves into abstraction

I think I'd plant this one with a mock orange or little lemon tree

the mystery of mutual charity

Suda was strongly influenced by both Danish Modern pottery and native Canadian art--influences which I think wonderfully merge in these earthy and strikingly graphic hand-formed candleholders

and think it would be terrific filled with apples or hedge apples

Mid-Century Carved and Painted Mexican Festival Mask with Rattle Headpiece wooden soldiers the painting pretty much completelyI am not at all on expert on Mexican dance and festival masks, but I certainly admire them in their vast and fantastic variety! I am pretty sure this one dates to the 1950s or so, and believe it would be referred to as a Moro mask, representing a Spanish colonial in the dance of the Christians and Moors. (And, with the red cheeks, exaggerated features and horn like pieces at the temples, rather mockingly I'd think.) The striped piece sticking straight