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</pre><p>In the <a title="17th century"href=/wiki/17th_century> 17th century </a> in some <a href=/wiki/Europe title=Europe> European </a> countries, it was common for death masks to be used as part of the <a href=/wiki/Effigy title=Effigy> effigy </a> of the deceased, displayed at state funerals. During the <a title="18th century"href=/wiki/18th_century> 18th </a> and <a title="19th century"href=/wiki/19th_century> 19th centuries </a> they were also used to keep a record the faces of unknown bodies. This is now done with <a class=mw-redirect href=/wiki/Photograph title=Photograph> photographs </a> .<p><a href=/wiki/Phrenology title=Phrenology> Phrenologists </a> and <a href=/wiki/Ethnography title=Ethnography> ethnographers </a> used both death masks and life <a href=/wiki/Mask title=Mask> masks </a> (taken from living people) for scientific and <a href=/wiki/Pseudoscience title=Pseudoscience> pseudoscientific </a> purposes. A <b> death mask </b> is a <a href=/wiki/Wax title=Wax> wax </a> or <a title="Plaster cast"class=mw-redirect href=/wiki/Plaster_cast> plaster cast </a> made of a person’s face. Death masks may be mementos of the dead, or used for creation of <a href=/wiki/Portrait title=Portrait> portraits </a> . It is sometimes possible to tell if paintings have been copied from death masks, because shape of the face is altered by the weight of the plaster during the making of the <a title="Molding (process) (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Molding_(process)&action=edit&redlink=1> mould </a> . In some cultures a death mask may be a clay or other item placed on the face of the dead person before burial rites. The best known of these are the masks used by <a title="Ancient Egypt"href=/wiki/Ancient_Egypt> ancient Egyptians </a> as part of the <a href=/wiki/Mummification title=Mummification> mummification </a> process, such as <a href=/wiki/Tutankhamun title=Tutankhamun> Tutankhamon </a> ’s burial mask. In the <a title="17th century"href=/wiki/17th_century> 17th century </a> in some <a href=/wiki/Europe title=Europe> European </a> countries, it was common for death masks to be used as part of the <a href=/wiki/Effigy title=Effigy> effigy </a> of the deceased, displayed at state funerals. During the <a title="18th century"href=/wiki/18th_century> 18th </a> and <a title="19th century"href=/wiki/19th_century> 19th centuries </a> they were also used to keep a record the faces of unknown bodies. This is now done with <a class=mw-redirect href=/wiki/Photograph title=Photograph> photographs </a> .<div aria-labelledby=mw-toc-heading class=toc id=toc role=navigation><input class=toctogglecheckbox id=toctogglecheckbox role=button style=display:none type=checkbox><div class=toctitle dir=ltr lang=en><h2 id=mw-toc-heading>Contents</h2><span class=toctogglespan> <label class=toctogglelabel for=toctogglecheckbox></label> </span></div><ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href=#History> <span class=tocnumber> 1 </span> <span class=toctext> History </span> </a> <ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href=#Sculptures> <span class=tocnumber> 1.1 </span> <span class=toctext> Sculptures </span> </a><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href=#Casts> <span class=tocnumber> 1.2 </span> <span class=toctext> Casts </span> </a><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href=#Science> <span class=tocnumber> 1.3 </span> <span class=toctext> Science </span> </a><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href=#Forensics> <span class=tocnumber> 1.4 </span> <span class=toctext> Forensics </span> </a></ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href=#Related_pages> <span class=tocnumber> 2 </span> <span class=toctext> Related pages </span> </a><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href=#References> <span class=tocnumber> 3 </span> <span class=toctext> References </span> </a><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href=#Other_websites> <span class=tocnumber> 4 </span> <span class=toctext> Other websites </span> </a></ul></div><h2><span class=mw-headline id=History> History </span> <span class=mw-editsection> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> [ </span> <a title="Change section: History"class=mw-editsection-visualeditor href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&veaction=edit&section=1> change </a> <span class=mw-editsection-divider> | </span> <a title="Change section: History"href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&action=edit&section=1> change source </a> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> ] </span> </span></h2><h3><span class=mw-headline id=Sculptures> Sculptures </span> <span class=mw-editsection> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> [ </span> <a title="Change section: Sculptures"class=mw-editsection-visualeditor href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&veaction=edit&section=2> change </a> <span class=mw-editsection-divider> | </span> <a title="Change section: Sculptures"href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&action=edit&section=2> change source </a> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> ] </span> </span></h3><p>Masks of dead people are a tradition in many countries. The most important process of the <a href=/wiki/Funeral title=Funeral> funeral </a> ceremony in ancient Egypt was the mummification of the body. After prayers and consecration, the body was put into a <a title="Sarcophagus (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Sarcophagus&action=edit&redlink=1> sarcophagus </a> decorated with gold and gems. A special part of the rite was a sculpted mask, put on the face of the dead person. This mask strengthened the spirit of the mummy and guarded the soul from evil spirits on its way to the afterworld. The best known mask is that of <a href=/wiki/Tutankhamun title=Tutankhamun> Tutankhamun </a> . Made of gold and gems, the mask shows the highly stylized features of the ancient ruler. Such masks were not, however, made from casts of the features. The mummification process itself kept the features of the dead person.<p>In 1876 the <a class=mw-redirect href=/wiki/Archaeologist title=Archaeologist> archaeologist </a> <a title="Heinrich Schliemann"href=/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann> Heinrich Schliemann </a> discovered in <a href=/wiki/Mycenae title=Mycenae> Mycenae </a> six graves, which he believed were those of kings and <a title="Ancient Greece"href=/wiki/Ancient_Greece> ancient Greek </a> heroes— <a href=/wiki/Agamemnon title=Agamemnon> Agamemnon </a> , <a href=/wiki/Cassandra title=Cassandra> Cassandra </a> , Evrimdon and others. To his surprise, the skulls were covered with gold masks. It is now thought by some unlikely that the masks actually belonged to Agamemnon and other heroes of the <a href=/wiki/Homer title=Homer> Homeric </a> <a title="Epic poetry"href=/wiki/Epic_poetry> epics </a> .<p>The lifelike character of <a title="Ancient Rome"href=/wiki/Ancient_Rome> Roman </a> portrait sculptures has been linked to the earlier Roman use of <a href=/wiki/Wax title=Wax> wax </a> to keep the features of dead family members. The wax masks were then remade in stone. <sup class=reference id=cite_ref-1> <a href=#cite_note-1> [1] </a> </sup><h3><span class=mw-headline id=Casts> Casts </span> <span class=mw-editsection> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> [ </span> <a title="Change section: Casts"class=mw-editsection-visualeditor href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&veaction=edit&section=3> change </a> <span class=mw-editsection-divider> | </span> <a title="Change section: Casts"href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&action=edit&section=3> change source </a> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> ] </span> </span></h3><div class="thumb tright"><div class=thumbinner style=width:222px;><a class=image href=/wiki/File:001Paskal.JPG> <img srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/001Paskal.JPG/330px-001Paskal.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/001Paskal.JPG 2x"alt class=thumbimage data-file-height=347 data-file-width=336 decoding=async height=227 src=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/001Paskal.JPG/220px-001Paskal.JPG width=220> </a><div class=thumbcaption><div class=magnify><a class=internal href=/wiki/File:001Paskal.JPG title=Enlarge> </a></div> Death mask of <a title="Blaise Pascal"href=/wiki/Blaise_Pascal> Blaise Pascal </a> .</div></div></div><p>In the late <a title="Middle Ages"href=/wiki/Middle_Ages> Middle Ages </a> , a shift took place from sculpted masks to true death masks, made of wax or plaster. These masks were not buried with the dead. Instead, they were used in funeral ceremonies and were later kept in libraries, museums and universities. Death masks were taken not only of dead royalty and nobility ( <a title="Henry VIII of England"class=mw-redirect href=/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England> Henry VIII </a> , <a title="House of Sforza (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=House_of_Sforza&action=edit&redlink=1> Sforza </a> ), but also of important people—poets, philosophers, and <a title="Dramaturge (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Dramaturge&action=edit&redlink=1> dramaturges </a> , such as <a title="Dante Alighieri"href=/wiki/Dante_Alighieri> Dante </a> , <a title="Filippo Brunelleschi"href=/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi> Filippo Brunelleschi </a> , <a title="Torquato Tasso (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Torquato_Tasso&action=edit&redlink=1> Torquato Tasso </a> , <a title="Blaise Pascal"href=/wiki/Blaise_Pascal> Blaise Pascal </a> and <a href=/wiki/Voltaire title=Voltaire> Voltaire </a> . Like in <a title="Ancient Rome"href=/wiki/Ancient_Rome> ancient Rome </a> , death masks were often then used in making marble sculpture portraits, busts or engravings of the deceased.<p><a title="Oliver Cromwell"href=/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell> Oliver Cromwell </a> ’s death mask is kept at <a title="Warwick Castle"href=/wiki/Warwick_Castle> Warwick Castle </a> . Another famous death mask is that of <a title="Napoleon I of France"class=mw-redirect href=/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France> Napoleon Bonaparte </a> , taken on the island of <a title="Saint Helena"href=/wiki/Saint_Helena> Saint Helena </a> and displayed at <a href=/wiki/London title=London> London </a> ’s <a title="British Museum"href=/wiki/British_Museum> British Museum </a> .<p>In Russia, the death mask tradition dates back to the times of <a title="Peter I of Russia"href=/wiki/Peter_I_of_Russia> Peter the Great </a> , whose death mask was made by <a title="Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Carlo_Bartolomeo_Rastrelli&action=edit&redlink=1> Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli </a> . Also well known are death masks of <a title="Alexander I of Russia"href=/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia> Alexander I </a> , <a title="Nicholas I of Russia (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_I_of_Russia&action=edit&redlink=1> Nicholas I </a> and <a title="Alexander II of Russia"href=/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia> Alexander II </a> .<p>One of the first real <a href=/wiki/Ukraine title=Ukraine> Ukrainian </a> death masks was that of the poet <a title="Taras Shevchenko"href=/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko> Taras Shevchenko </a> , made by <a title="Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Peter_Clodt_von_J%C3%BCrgensburg&action=edit&redlink=1> Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg </a> in <a title="Saint Petersburg"href=/wiki/Saint_Petersburg> St. Petersburg </a> , <a href=/wiki/Russia title=Russia> Russia </a> . <sup class=reference id=cite_ref-2> <a href=#cite_note-2> [2] </a> </sup><h3><span class=mw-headline id=Science> Science </span> <span class=mw-editsection> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> [ </span> <a title="Change section: Science"class=mw-editsection-visualeditor href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&veaction=edit&section=4> change </a> <span class=mw-editsection-divider> | </span> <a title="Change section: Science"href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&action=edit&section=4> change source </a> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> ] </span> </span></h3><div class="thumb tright"><div class=thumbinner style=width:222px;><a class=image href=/wiki/File:Making_Death_Mask_Edit_4.jpg> <img srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Making_Death_Mask_Edit_4.jpg/330px-Making_Death_Mask_Edit_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Making_Death_Mask_Edit_4.jpg/440px-Making_Death_Mask_Edit_4.jpg 2x"alt class=thumbimage data-file-height=984 data-file-width=1286 decoding=async height=168 src=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Making_Death_Mask_Edit_4.jpg/220px-Making_Death_Mask_Edit_4.jpg width=220> </a><div class=thumbcaption><div class=magnify><a class=internal href=/wiki/File:Making_Death_Mask_Edit_4.jpg title=Enlarge> </a></div> Two men making a death mask</div></div></div><p>Death masks were used by scientists from the late 18th century onwards to record differences in human <a title="Physiognomy (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Physiognomy&action=edit&redlink=1> physiognomy </a> . The life mask was also increasingly common at this time, taken from living persons. Anthropologists used such masks to study <a title="Physiognomy (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Physiognomy&action=edit&redlink=1> physiognomic </a> features in famous persons and notorious <a href=/wiki/Crime title=Crime> criminals </a> . Masks were also used to collect data on <a title="Race (classification of human beings) (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Race_(classification_of_human_beings)&action=edit&redlink=1> racial </a> differences.<h3><span class=mw-headline id=Forensics> Forensics </span> <span class=mw-editsection> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> [ </span> <a title="Change section: Forensics"class=mw-editsection-visualeditor href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&veaction=edit&section=5> change </a> <span class=mw-editsection-divider> | </span> <a title="Change section: Forensics"href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&action=edit&section=5> change source </a> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> ] </span> </span></h3><div class="thumb tright"><div class=thumbinner style=width:222px;><a class=image href=/wiki/File:L%27inconnue_de_la_Seine_(masque_mortuaire).jpg> <img srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/L%27inconnue_de_la_Seine_%28masque_mortuaire%29.jpg/330px-L%27inconnue_de_la_Seine_%28masque_mortuaire%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/L%27inconnue_de_la_Seine_%28masque_mortuaire%29.jpg/440px-L%27inconnue_de_la_Seine_%28masque_mortuaire%29.jpg 2x"alt class=thumbimage data-file-height=650 data-file-width=485 decoding=async height=295 src=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/L%27inconnue_de_la_Seine_%28masque_mortuaire%29.jpg/220px-L%27inconnue_de_la_Seine_%28masque_mortuaire%29.jpg width=220> </a><div class=thumbcaption><div class=magnify><a class=internal href=/wiki/File:L%27inconnue_de_la_Seine_(masque_mortuaire).jpg title=Enlarge> </a></div><i> <a title="L'Inconnue de la Seine (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=L%27Inconnue_de_la_Seine&action=edit&redlink=1> L'Inconnue de la Seine </a> </i> .</div></div></div><p>Before the invention of <a href=/wiki/Photography title=Photography> photography </a> , the faces of unknown bodies were sometimes kept by making death masks so that relatives of the dead could recognize them if they were looking for a missing person.<p>One such mask, known as <i> <a title="L'Inconnue de la Seine (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=L%27Inconnue_de_la_Seine&action=edit&redlink=1> L'Inconnue de la Seine </a> </i> , recorded the face of a young woman who had drowned in the <a href=/wiki/Seine title=Seine> Seine River </a> at <a href=/wiki/Paris title=Paris> Paris </a> around the late 1880s. A worker at the Paris <a href=/wiki/Morgue title=Morgue> morgue </a> was so taken by her beauty that he made a plaster cast of her face. She was considered so beautiful that in the following years copies of the mask became a fashionable item in Parisian <a href=/wiki/Bohemianism title=Bohemianism> Bohemian </a> society. <sup class=reference id=cite_ref-3> <a href=#cite_note-3> [3] </a> </sup> The face of <a title="Resusci Anne"href=/wiki/Resusci_Anne> Resusci Anne </a> , the world’s first <a title="Cardiopulmonary resuscitation"href=/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_resuscitation> CPR </a> training <a href=/wiki/Mannequin title=Mannequin> mannequin </a> , introduced in 1960, was modeled after <i> L'Inconnue de la Seine </i> . <sup class=reference id=cite_ref-4> <a href=#cite_note-4> [4] </a> </sup><h2><span class=mw-headline id=Related_pages> Related pages </span> <span class=mw-editsection> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> [ </span> <a title="Change section: Related pages"class=mw-editsection-visualeditor href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&veaction=edit&section=6> change </a> <span class=mw-editsection-divider> | </span> <a title="Change section: Related pages"href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&action=edit&section=6> change source </a> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> ] </span> </span></h2><ul><li><a href=/wiki/Portrait title=Portrait> Portrait </a><li><a href=/wiki/Sculpture title=Sculpture> Sculpture </a></ul><h2><span class=mw-headline id=References> References </span> <span class=mw-editsection> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> [ </span> <a title="Change section: References"class=mw-editsection-visualeditor href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&veaction=edit&section=7> change </a> <span class=mw-editsection-divider> | </span> <a title="Change section: References"href=/w/index.php?title=Death_mask&action=edit&section=7> change source </a> <span class=mw-editsection-bracket> ] </span> </span></h2><style data-mw-deduplicate=TemplateStyles:r7730865>.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%;margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class=reflist><div class=mw-references-wrap><ol class=references><li id=cite_note-1><span class=mw-cite-backlink> <a href=#cite_ref-1> ↑ </a> </span> <span class=reference-text> <a title="H.W. Janson (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=H.W._Janson&action=edit&redlink=1> H.W. Janson </a> with Dora Jane Janson, <i> History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from the Dawn of History to the Present Day </i> , <a title="Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Englewood_Cliffs,_New_Jersey&action=edit&redlink=1> Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey </a> , <a title="Prentice-Hall (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Prentice-Hall&action=edit&redlink=1> Prentice-Hall </a> , and <a title="New York City"href=/wiki/New_York_City> New York </a> , <a title="Harry N. Abrams (not yet started)"class=new href=/w/index.php?title=Harry_N._Abrams&action=edit&redlink=1> Harry N. Abrams </a> , 1962, p. 141. </span><li id=cite_note-2><span class=mw-cite-backlink> <a href=#cite_ref-2> ↑ </a> </span> <span class=reference-text> <a class="external text"href=http://www.deathmask.kiev.ua rel=nofollow> Virtual Museum of Death Mask </a> <a class="external text"href=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308153718/http://deathmask.kiev.ua/ rel=nofollow> Archived </a> 2018-03-08 at the <a title="Wayback Machine"href=/wiki/Wayback_Machine> Wayback Machine </a> URL accessed on December 4, 2006. </span><li id=cite_note-3><span class=mw-cite-backlink> <a href=#cite_ref-3> ↑ </a> </span> <span class=reference-text> Elizabeth Bronfen, <i> Over her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic </i> , MUP, 1992, p. 207. </span><li id=cite_note-4><span class=mw-cite-backlink> <a href=#cite_ref-4> ↑ </a> </span> <span class=reference-text> <style data-mw-deduplicate=TemplateStyles:r7263714>.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}</style> <cite class="citation web cs1"> <a class="external text"href=http://www.laerdal.com/us/docid/1117082/The-Girl-from-the-River-Seine rel=nofollow> "The Girl from the River Seine" </a> . 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interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a title="بمردن ماسک – Mazanderani"class=interlanguage-link-target href=https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9 hreflang=mzn lang=mzn> <span> مازِرونی </span> </a><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a title="Dodenmasker – Dutch"class=interlanguage-link-target href=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodenmasker hreflang=nl lang=nl> <span> Nederlands </span> </a><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a title="デスマスク – Japanese"class=interlanguage-link-target href=https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF hreflang=ja lang=ja> <span> 日本語 </span> </a><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a title="Dødsmaske – Norwegian Bokmål"class=interlanguage-link-target href=https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B8dsmaske hreflang=nb lang=nb> <span> Norsk bokmål </span> </a><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a 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