This 16th-century full-face vizard mask was discovered in 2010 ... which hides their whole face. Wearing a mask to the theater was a way “to protect a woman’s modesty,” notes Will Pritchard ...

These wooden masks, used in an ancient form of Japanese theater called Noh ... “A Noh mask is the face of an actor and can never be parted (from it). Actors puts them on inside the dressing ...

“We are masking on Fridays,” an attendant told one woman who had managed to make it well inside the theater without a mask on her face. The woman apologized and drew out a mask from her purs ...

Everett Collection / Everett Col “Up on the shelves were these full face masks of Richard Nixon, and down at the end was Mr. Spock. And right next to it was this blank face Capt. Kirk ...