Ajitz Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Cacique (Chief) Mask: Colorful wooden mask depicting a mustached male with a multi-colored feathered headdress, also with a red painted face, gold facial hair, pink lips, and a double set of eye holes.
Cacique (Chief) Mask

Colorful wooden mask depicting a mustached male with a multi-colored feathered headdress, also with a red painted face, gold facial hair, pink lips, and a double set of eye holes.

Name/Title

Ajitz Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.90

Description

A life-sized triangular wood mask depicting a man with a red complexion. There is a blue, silver, green, yellow, red, and green feather headdress. Gold painted eyebrows are over two sets of cutout eyeholes. A large straight nose is above a gold parted mustache and a closed pink mouth. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Condition notes: The headdress at the base is lightly scuffed on the right side and the segments are discolored.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de la Conquista (Dance of the Conquest)

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

City

Chichicastenango

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Brujo, Mayan, Conquest , 2014.C-DG.90

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

8 in

Depth

5 in

Material

Wood, Pigment, Gesso