To frighten evil spirits away from their homes and villages on festival days, Mexicans put on the faces of nightmare bulls. Chinese dragons, purple monkeys, Byzantine kings, Greek satyrs, cranberry-colored Satans and a host of nameless beings as varied as they are scary. Small papier-mache masks for children sell for only a few cents in every market place; more elaborate examples, carved from wood or gourd, are used in ceremonial dances. Next week, during the festival of Corpus Christi. such dances will be held all over Mexico.
Painter Diego Rivera, who owns one of the world's best collec tions of Mexican archeological...
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