Lesson Plans

Why use these masks?

This collection represents many things in material culture. A mask's life story is continued through engagement and they represent the complicated history and process of collecting.

How to use these masks?

Engage with them, however you choose. May Weber's information came from the collectors she got the masks from and the people and places she interacted with, and her documentation is based on their documentation. She often contradicts herself in different places. But these masks are from festivals deeply embedded in indigenous mexican culture and have much to teach us.