Every year, in the Costa Rican village of Boruca, men dress in garish masks and costumes to reenact their ancestors' battle against colonizers 500 years ago. In the ritual, Spaniards are depicted ...

On a rainy Saturday afternoon, a museum without borders manifested itself as a Boruca indigenous mask painting class behind the Parque Café in Barrio Escalante, San José. The Indigenous Museum of ...

The Boruca people perform the ritual every year between early December and early February. "The ritual represents the feeling of people because the oppression is day by day killing our identity ...