The gray Khon mask (in Khon pose) in the middle acted as an another face of one person. As a person look at it, its only reflection is him or herself but with different identity. Same as the Khon actor that has to practice hard to be another person, in this case is the Hanuman character in Ramayana story.
The Mother of pearl's Hanuman mask was excluded up to show its making process, in which the upper most one is the first step of making this mask.
The upper yellow ring shows the loop of actions in which the Khon mask work before, during and after the stage play.
The below unconnected ring is the timeline of Khon. The inner ring indicate different stages of special event happened in each time period, from Ayutthaya (top) to King Rama 9 (bottom). The outer ring shows the Khon performance development and duration of each style of performance played in that particular time, also from Ayutthaya to King Rama 9.
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