Day of the Dead mask

Art

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El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Name/Title

Day of the Dead mask

Entry/Object ID

E-83

Description

A wooden mask with a long nose, painted black. It has two holes on either side of the face, as if for a string to secure it to a face. One hole in the middle of the forehead. There is some white paint in various places, but the mask itself is worn and chipped; the inside of the mask is very rough, and the wood looks dirty or as if it is starting to decay.

Artwork Details

Medium

Wood

Collection

El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Category

Day of the Dead
Ethnography, Anthropology

Acquisition

Accession

99.01.20

Source or Donor

Craft and Folk Art Museum

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Mesoamerican

Culture/Tribe

Mexican

Notes

From the Puebla region

Dimensions

Length

40 cm

Dimension Notes

The nose on this mask is 40 cm long

Color

Black

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

This object is listed as having an original catalog number from the Craft and Folk Art Museum: LA376 (624) on it's catalog card. However, there is no accession number listed on its original catalog card, or on the object itself..