Vaquero Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Vaquero Mask: Carved wood male mask with oval eye openings, straight nose, incised details for hair and bar-shaped mustache, with stylized side-burns along both sides of the face
Vaquero Mask

Carved wood male mask with oval eye openings, straight nose, incised details for hair and bar-shaped mustache, with stylized side-burns along both sides of the face

Name/Title

Vaquero Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.21

Description

A life-sized triangular wood mask depicting a man with carved hair. There are cutout eyeholes. A small nose is above a mustache and parted mouth. Curled sideburns are on the sides of the face. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Some cracks in the wood.

Use

Performance

Context

Unknown

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1960 - 1969

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Highlands of Guatemala, Central America

Country

Guatemala

Culture/Tribe

Unknown

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Cowboy, 2014.C-DG.21, Vaquero

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

7 in

Width

6 in

Depth

7 in

Material

Wood, Pigment