History of Indonesian's Mask

i love Mask. Every Mask in the worl, especially from Indonesia, because masks from Indonesia its so ethnic and sooo Indonesiaaaa..
Especially mask from Java Island :)

In Indonesia mask initially serve as a tool to deal with ancestral spirits, can be seen in traditional ceremonies Batak (North Sumatra), the people around Tolage-Alfur (Central Sulawesi), and also at the ceremony tiwah the Dayak tribe in Kalimantan. In Cirebon - West Java mask performing arts also grew out of a magical ceremony to honor ancestors visitors at the ceremony, the ceremony honoring ancestral spirits with performances masks to invoke the blessings of the great-great-grandfather or their ancestors in a sacred tomb. However, with the emergence of Islam and Christians in Indonesia and the stronger its influence in society, then the trust becomes thin or even disappear altogether so that the spirits are no longer calling the ceremony was held and performances

mask, even if still held, is in the form of a more secular.

In the development masks a lot of performances plays theme from Panji stories, written in XIV century that gradually changed the nature of which was originally sacred to the performing arts.

Mask based on the Javanese tradition, show the mask created in 1586 by Sunan Kalijaga, son of the Regent of Tuban is very fond of going to the arts and eventually became one of his guardians spreaders of Islam in Java. Mask is then spread and continues to grow and develop every area with character and style of each are different from each other

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