Maria Cambinda (head - front)

Maria Cambinda mask head, front view, crafted in dark wood, solid, rigid and frontalized body on a rectangular base. Hair with lines incised in semicircles with the front ending in a triangular shape. Eyebrows, mouth and eyes outlined, with the eyes closed and painted in reddish tones. Angular nose. It has three holes in each ear and has a long, thin neck. Slender body with the upper part of the torso (shoulders and breasts) painted in a reddish tone. Painting on the back ends in tip. Arms represented in half. Broken right arm. In the center, hollow area in a cylindrical shape. Excavated posterior part forming an opening for fitting the face. Used in processions of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men, in Ouro Preto/MG.