out of your childhood. A wind is rising
in the north, a scarlet light
like a fire in the sky.
When you look through the eyeholes it is like falling.
Night gauzes you in black. You are blind
as in the beginning of the world. Sniff. Seek the moon.
After a while you will know
that creased musky smell is rising
from your skin.
Once you locate the ears the drums begin.
Your fur stiffens. A roar from the distant left,
like monsoon water. You swivel your sightless head.
Under your sheathed paw
the ground shifts wet.
What is that small wild sound
sheltering in your skull
Once again, an example of the mask changing the participant physically. With the transition to becoming the tiger beginning at the head, with the mask, the transition would likely end at the paws. 
 Complete with paws and fur, it is safe to say that the participant has completed his transition and has become the tiger, for the sake of the ritual. 

Tiger Mask Ritual