OCTOBER 2013 SCAVENGER HUNT CHALLENGE - A Mask

Kukeri (singular: kuker) is a traditional Bulgarian ritual to scare away evil spirits, with costumed men performing the ritual. Closely related traditions are found throughout the Balkans and Greece.
The costumes cover most of the body and include decorated wooden masks of animals (sometimes double-faced) and large bells attached to the belt.
In Bulgaria, during a ritual spectacle of spring, the kukeri walk and dance through the village to scare evil spirits away with the costumes and the sound of the bells, as well as to provide a good harvest, health, and happiness to the village during the year.
(From Wikipedia)

In National Museum of Ethnography, Warsaw.