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PERFORMANCE STYLES OR SOCIETIES USING MASKS FOR RITUAL OR FESTIVAL: Greek tragedy design a mask for Oedipus, Creon, Tiresias, or Jocasta in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex Greek and Roman comedy Commedia dell 'Arte Venetian Renaissance and Eighteenth Century Japan Noh Kyogen Bugaku Gigaku Africa Dogon masks, Mali Congo Ivory Coast Sierra Leone Indonesia Java, Wayang golek Bali, Topeng Ceylon Oceania Melanesia Papua New Guinea European carnival and folk masks Alpine regions: Tyrol, Switzerland, Upper Austria, Southern Germany Bulgaria Baltic nations Caribbean Trinidad Carnival The Americas: Native American: Northwest Coast (Tlingit, Heiltsuk, Haisla, Oweekeno, Tsimshian, KwakwakaÍwekw) Iroquois and Seneca false-face societies Navaho Mexico Pre-Columbian Folk Masks Bolivian Andes Brazil Cajun Mardi Gras