Select views of Mexican folk art form theme of 3 conferences on Zoom

[Judi Lynn]

5. Decided to see if YouTube had any Mexican dances with people wearing hand-made masks.

Found a dance featuring "little old men" and their walking sticks dancing with women folk, representing the Mixtec culture at a gathering.

The dance which preceded it also involves little old men, "Los Viejitos":

Images of masks dancers wear in Mexico:

Immigrants from Oaxaca to California, wearing "devil" masks for dance:

(Interesting note that indigenous cultures in South America also have "devil" dances, too, which mysteriously were created when the Spanish invaded their countries, too)