Vaquero Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Vaquero Mask: Carved wood face mask painted red depicting a male with black hair, beard, and mustache. Eye holes carved beneath brow lines above painted eyes.
Vaquero Mask

Carved wood face mask painted red depicting a male with black hair, beard, and mustache. Eye holes carved beneath brow lines above painted eyes.

Name/Title

Vaquero Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.1

Description

A life-sized triangular wood mask depicting a man with a garnet-red complexion. A black unibrow is over cutout eyeholes for the wearer and white eyes. A small nose is above an upturned black mustache a frowning mouth. The hair and goatee are black. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Various signs of paint chipping expose the wood.

Use

Performance

Context

Unknown

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

Samayac, Suchitepéquez

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks, Masquerades

Search Terms

Cowboy, Man, 2014.C-DG.1

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

9-1/2 in

Width

7-1/8 in

Depth

4-1/2 in

Material

Wood, Pigment, Gesso