Description

This wooden mask has the face of a human with two bats on top and bottom of the mask. The depiction of bats in Mexican folk dance masks symbolize the ancient themes of death, darkness, and the unknown. The bat also came to be associated with water, rain and crop fertility. Bat masks were used in traditional bat dances in the state of Guerrero. The bat dances involved both bat masks and other types of animal masks such as butterflies, coyotes and owls.