At Himalayan Mercantile we are well known for our top notch collection of Himalayan masks. Himalayan middle hills masks are enjoying ever more interest in the tribal art community. With the streams of old animist tribal religions melding with the Hindu and Buddhist influences, the masks of Nepal and the greater Himalayan region exhibit amazing  variation in form and represent a very rich and ancient tradition of ritual mask use. That is why increasingly savvy collectors of tribal art recognize that this is a genre with great depth and perhaps most notably these Himalayan masks remain radically undervalued in comparison to the tribal arts of other regions of the world.

 

Above: An exceedingly rare and unique Southern Nepal mask of Jatayu, the Vulture King from the Hindu epic, Ramayana.