Unboxing and Unmasking Thai Theater

#RipleyGO Contest Details - http://www.ripleys.com/RipleysGO These are theater masks from Thailand, Khon masks to be exact. Khon is a genre of dance drama that was traditionally performed solely by masked men in the royal court. These masks would have been purchased by Ripley in the 1930s. In 1932, he took a very well documented trip to Thailand. Our archives store all of his journals that detail the trip, in which he states he “watched the fighting Siamese fish, and then the Siamese dancers.” Specifically, about the Khon dancers, Ripley wrote, “the dancers of Siam, and all the other places in this part of the world, look marvelous…their costumes were the most magnificent I have ever seen.” These masks, this culture, these people clearly had an effect on Ripley, and thus he began collecting. For more show notes, read our blog: http://bit.ly/ThaiMasks Come back next week for an all-new Unboxing Ripley's Believe It or Not! and give us a thumbs up if you want to see more unboxing videos like this one. FOLLOW US! http://www.ripleys.com   / ripleysbelieveitornot     / ripleys     / ripleysodditorium   https://plus.google.com/+Ripleys/ Snapchat - RipleysBION