So that's why they're called jack-o'-lanterns! The post What People Used to Carve For Halloween (Before Pumpkins) appeared ...

Catrinas – The Philosophy of Life and Death in Female Form La Catrina is one of Mexico's most iconic cultural figures - a female skeleton dressed in elegant attire and a feathered hat.

Something way different than usual but something i knew i wanted to do when i was reading a Medieval Devices book and saw the Scolds Bridle and a Eye Screw Mask, history is crazy and so are the ...

It’s not every year that Alice Murieta, 9, dresses up for Día de Muertos, but when she does, she’s ready. As La Muerte, from Jorge Gutierrez’s “Book of Life,” she wears a wide-brimmed ...

Carlos Mérida, “Two men dancing and wearing masks from Huixquilucan at the fiesta of the Huehuenches,” 1940, lithograph. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SOMAAP, Mexico City, via The ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – One West Texas woman from San Angelo uses her makeup and design skills to honor her Hispanic culture. With every brush stroke and attention to detail in her co… ...

The 2018 organizers are expecting up to 2,500 people in costume to promenade. Parading, sometimes in costume, has a long history as part of Japanese festivals, notes Hamada. What differentiates ...

Before arriving in Ottawa in 2004, ‘The Dominator’ wore a generic cage mask with some small adornments. With the Buffalo Sabres, he wore a black mask with just a small logo on the front.

La Catrina, Posada’s iconic caricature, was created around 1910 to mock the Mexican aristocracy. She has since become a symbol of Día de los Muertos and a reminder that in death, everyone is equal.

The history of mask in theater Ancient Greece: Thespis of Icaria, often called the first actor, used various masks to play a variety of characters. In the early days of theater, mask performance ...