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Mask are a universal human phenomenon, used as a form of cultural and spiritual expression in almost every culture throughout the world. This is true not only for past centuries but also today as mask still play a vital artistic and spiritual role in many communities.

 

Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, dramatists and other cultural researchers are interested in this fascinating aspect of humanity's cultural, artistic and religious behavior. Masks are the visual representation of people's beliefs, superstitions and aesthetic and at the same time they also represent different societies' views on medicine, health care, food gathering, and ceremonies of all kinds.

 

In Indonesia the wonderful masks that are found in the many different rich local cultural contain many have unexplored asserts. Furthermore, masks have freed themselves from purely traditional obligations and have become an object for artistic experimentation and the production of handicrafts. In recent times, mask in Lombok especially have become and export commodity with resulting positive and negative cultural results. Real language and multiple layer of meaning can be found in masks and more visit our product cultured loose golden pearls wholesaler from Lombok Indonesia

 

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