Hello. Someone finally asked a question that I have just a little info on but I'm still late on getting back with it. Where oh where does the time go?
The mask in the picture was given to me about 15 years ago by a good friend of ours, a Salvadoran businessman named Federico. The mask was made by a maskmaker (is that a word) in El Salvador named, and so marked on the back, by someone named Ciro. Federico knows/knew Ciro and had a collection of more than a dozen of masks made by him. He wasn't sure that Ciro was still alive but said that he was getting up in years.
The wood is moderately hard and fibrous and wood was removed by hand from the rear with a wood chisel,judging from the hundreds of cuts. Enough wood was removed so that all the wood is about three quarters of an inch in thickness.
I just never got around to researching it so can'e tell you much more than this. Perhaps some of the members know something more about Ciro.
