This exhibit will trace the development of puppet, mask, and object performance as elements of European ritual and indigenous American ritual, and their subsequent development after Spanish Conquest as the hybrid culture of the Americas. It will include the compelling language of Central American, South American and Caribbean masks; the use of performing objects in such rituals as Dia de los Muertos; the immensely popular marionettes of the Rosete-Aranda family of Huamantla, and Dominican puppet theater and mask performance as both children's entertainment and experimental performance.

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