Archival Note Card | Chinese Opera Masks - #12

White face with bold black wing-shaped brows and a long grey-striped beard.

This is an archival note card from the chinese opera masks series, no. 12, titled "redbone". It is paper. Chinese opera uses painted face patterns, known as lianpu, in which color and design generally signal a character's temperament, role or moral standing. Slender card in a gold-patterned border. Black strokes flare across the eyes and up the forehead, a red-and-white headband tops the head, and a fan of gold lines radiates behind. Finely ruled lines make the beard. It is 4.25 inches long and 5.5 high.

Eyebrows with real wingspan and no apology.