Mask

Since early history the common reproduction of a human's or animal's face or head by means of a hollow form. Easily malleable materials such as wood, potter's clay, paper mâché and gypsum is used for the manufacture of masks. For the so-called life and death masks, a negative moulding of a person's face is created and later filled with material to produce the positive showing the features of the person. The term "mask" refers to both the negative and positive mould.