Jaguar Shaman Mask
Costa Rica; Nicaragua
The Jaguar Shaman Mask holds significant cultural importance in Central America, where jaguars often serve as spirit animals. The shaman or sorcerer enters into a trance with his eyes half shut, and the jaguar spirit emerges from his head. (The Classical Mayan god of the underworld is usually represented as a jaguar.)
This entity appears in the story “2. The Bitterness of the Masks”.