Pueblo ceremonial mask carved on basalt at Boca Negra Canyon, Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA: Rio Grande Style, 1100-1600.
Pueblo ceremonial mask carved on basalt at Boca Negra Canyon, Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Thousands of Rio Grande Style images were carved on the boulders and cliff faces of the West Mesa volcanic escarpment and slopes in the period c AD1100 to c AD1600. Kachina masks and costumes are used in Pueblo ceremonies to represent the physical manifestations of divine beings, ancestral spirits, essenses or concepts, which act as intermediaries between the human and spirit worlds, and promote health and prosperity by bringing such blessings as rain.
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Location: Petroglyph National Monument, Boca Negra Canyon, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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