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A Mayan painting from a temple wall that shows aristocracy in elaborate jaguar masks — rising up higher on the head than the mask may have been, for there is a thin line painted in front of the face, seeming to indicate that there was a mask in front of the face, as if this is a depiction of the individual inside the mask as well as the mask he was actually wearing over his face

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