Description:In 2023, while leading a photo tour through Nepal and Bhutan, we had the good fortune to witness not only a day of festivities and celebration in a small village in Bhutan, but to go behind the scenes while the performers were getting ready.
This mask hanging on the wall would too my strapped to a gentleman’s head (the mouth slit is used for seeing) for one of many masked dances pictured here.
Location:Rural Bhutan, Asia
Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.