Unknown Mask
Unknown Mask
Wooden male mask with smiling pink face, black hair, eyebrows, and goatee; carved wide eyes with painted lashes and additional eye-holes under the brows
Name/Title
Unknown MaskEntry/Object ID
2014.C-DG.79Description
A life-sized square wood mask depicting a man with a peach-pink face. The hair is black. Black painted eyebrows are above cutout eyeholes for the wearer and painted eyes with black lashes. A large flat nose is above a smiling, open, red mouth. Sets of incised black lines create wrinkles. There is a small painted black goatee.A wire is attached to the back. Overall signs of paint loss and scratching.Use
PerformanceContext
UnknownCollection
Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
UnknownAttribution
Attributed toRole
MakerDate made
circa 1970 - 1979Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Country
GuatemalaRegion
Central AmericaEthnography
Cultural Region
* Untyped Cultural Region
UnknownCulture/Tribe
Unknown