“The hood in the museum’s collection does look as though it might have been fashioned in the 17th century — but Ruisinger noted that it would have been wholly impractical, as the eyeholes are too far apart and there is no airway for breathing.
The museum now believes it might be either a genuine curiosity from the 1650s, a 19th-century teaching aid for lectures on the history of medicine or a forgery from the past century.”
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The amount of things those eyes have seen is astounding.
What purpose does it make to shape it like that?
This one looks way more normal than in pics, this almost gives WW1 gas mask vibes.
Well, I like the other one better….
It looks way more terryfiying than the modern version
That is cool
Bring back this mask (with modern protection ofc)
Imagine waking up to this ant eater dude examining you…
wicked
Is that someone’s hollowed out dick?
The Throughline podcast did a really informative episode about these masks about 6 years ago if anyone wants to check it out
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/855405132
You’re not fooling me, mole man.
Echidna!
It puts the lotion on its skin…
So less “sleek, gothic bird man” and more “lumpy mole man.” Gotcha.
that’s legitimately unsettling lol
That does not look anywhere close to as cool as we have been made to believe.
That one looks like an aardvaark.
Looks like an alien from
https://preview.redd.it/2l4vf6ogx1zg1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cd473680a89d07a1697d1df2d2a20f2ab535fe6
starwars.
ALF?
Mole
“The hood in the museum’s collection does look as though it might have been fashioned in the 17th century — but Ruisinger noted that it would have been wholly impractical, as the eyeholes are too far apart and there is no airway for breathing.
The museum now believes it might be either a genuine curiosity from the 1650s, a 19th-century teaching aid for lectures on the history of medicine or a forgery from the past century.”
[https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/plague-doctor-mask-black-death-h9bd9xndp](https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/plague-doctor-mask-black-death-h9bd9xndp)
Scratch your nose
basically just cos play to go scamming
Looks like the spy from Star Wars Episode 4
Imagine this mask on a snowman
One of two? Where’s the other one?