you can make some masks out of paper mache!
What HAVEN'T masks been made of is the true question. There have been masks made from paper, clay, stone, gold, mud, feces... Anything (solid) you could possible imagine!
The yellow and blue mask?
Wool was used to make portrait masks.
Traditional Venetian masks are made of papier mache. Imitations can be made of plaster, porcelain or plastic.
The African Lulua Masks are described in this linkPlease related link below.
The most sacred ones (usually burial masks) were made out of Jade. Ceremony masks were made out of wood. Some masks were adorned with colored stones and decorative metals. Poor Mayans made masks out of palm tree bark or paper mache.
Mainly gold with insets of other materials
The traditional tool used to make an African mask is an Adze but the fine details carved in the mask are done by a variety of small knives.
Masks can be made of lots of different materials but they are mostly made of:Beads (glass, plastic, clay, wood, etc...)WoodGrass or strawLeatherFabric or clothMetalString or twineThese are the answers i got when i had to research masks.
gold
Wool was used to make portrait masks.
Mostly wood
paper and plaster
Shakespeare used masks in his plays to give the characters mystery, or decite. Also to make the characters easier to follow, like which in Midsummer Nights Dream, he used masks to show who was the animals.
wood and clay
Dental materials are examples of materials that are used to make impressions.
who first used plants to make materials
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The masks were used in rituals and celebrations. Some tribes wore animal masks as a way of thanking the animals for their gifts of food and warmth.