Mexicano Mask
Mexican Mask
Wooden, male mask painted brown with black stylized hair, sideburns and mustache; brown glass eyes encircled by painted lashes under heavy black brows with addition eyeholes; and with red, parted mouth showing a top row of white and gold teeth.
Name/Title
Mexicano MaskEntry/Object ID
2014.C-DG.63Description
A life-sized rectangular wood mask depicting a man with a walnut brown complexion. There is stylized black hair, sideburns, and a parted mustache. Painted eyebrows over two cutout eyeholes for the wearer and inset brown eyes outlined with black lashes. A large, curved nose is above a slightly open red mouth with white and brown teeth. A wire is attached to the back of the mask.Use
PerformanceContext
Baile de Mexicanos (Dance of the Mexicans)Collection
Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
K’iche’ PeopleAttribution
Attributed toRole
MakerDate made
circa 1970 - 1979Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Country
GuatemalaRegion
Central AmericaEthnography
Cultural Region
* Untyped Cultural Region
South Coast, GuatemalaCulture/Tribe
K'iché People
Maya