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Living masks of the Newars: The itinerant masked dances of the Kathmandu Valley

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Fig. 10.
Narasimha, metal mask, one of Vishnu's avatars.
The mask is worn by a member of the Rājopādhyāya Brahman caste.

Patan.
August 2010.

© G. Toffin