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King Tuts Mask Description

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The description of king tuts mask. It is made of gold with black horizontal medium think lines across the headdress of the mask. The eye is caught by the gold and black lines of the headdress and moves in with the darkened eyes of the king. The chest part of the head mask is rounded with black and blue lines. The face of the mask is showed to have neuro eyebrows with cat like eyes. The top of the head mask is the cobra with fine detail work. The mask is a very complexed mask in very many ways from the structure of the head mask to the hand painted out lines of the mask.
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