Vaquero Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Vaquero Mask: Wood male mask with inserted brown glass eyes fringed with painted lashes; open mouth with red painted lips, showing two gold teeth in a row of white; and stylized golden mustache, sideburns and coiffure, accented with flower medallions on either side of a center green medallion
Vaquero Mask

Wood male mask with inserted brown glass eyes fringed with painted lashes; open mouth with red painted lips, showing two gold teeth in a row of white; and stylized golden mustache, sideburns and coiffure, accented with flower medallions on either side of a center green medallion

Name/Title

Vaquero Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.113

Description

A life-sized circular wood mask depicting a man with ivory skin and peach blush accents on the cheeks and nose. Gold hair that goes into curled sideburns and is decorated with flowers and green medallions. Gold-painted eyebrows are above two cutout eyeholes for the wearer and inset brown glass eyes outlined with gold-painted lashes. A short stub nose is above a parted gold mustache and a slightly open red mouth with white and gold teeth. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Some signs of pigment loss.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile del Torito (Dance of the Bull)

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

K’iche’ People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1970 - 1979

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Santa Cruz, El Quiché

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Cowboy, 2014.C-DG.113

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

7 in

Width

6-1/2 in

Depth

5 in

Material

Wood, Gesso, Pigment, Glass