Vaquero Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Vaquero Mask: Carved wood mask of male with pink face and black hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and mustache and featuring brown glass eyes
Vaquero Mask

Carved wood mask of male with pink face and black hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and mustache and featuring brown glass eyes

Name/Title

Vaquero Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.22

Description

A life-sized rectangular wood mask depicting a man with a salmon-pink complexion. There is black, carved hair. Black eyebrows are over cutout eyeholes for the wearer and inset brown eyes with brown lashes underneath. A straight nose is above an upturned black mustache and an open mouth. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Various scratches and signs of paint chipping.

Use

Folk Dance Performance

Context

Baile de los Tunes (Dance of the Drums)

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

K’iche’ People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1960 - 1969

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

San Bernardino, Suchitepéquez

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Cowboy, Deer Dance, Vaquero, 2014.C-DG.22

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Width

6-3/4 in

Depth

4 in

Material

Glass, Wood, Gesso