Vaquero Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Vaquero Mask: Carved and painted wooden mask depicting a male with a pink face, black painted incised hair, and rectangular eye openings with an additional pair of circular eye holes in the forehead. Small nose with a small split mustache above open mouth exposing white carved teeth ending in a large prominent chin.
Vaquero Mask

Carved and painted wooden mask depicting a male with a pink face, black painted incised hair, and rectangular eye openings with an additional pair of circular eye holes in the forehead. Small nose with a small split mustache above open mouth exposing white carved teeth ending in a large prominent chin.

Name/Title

Vaquero Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.11

Description

A life-sized rectangular wood mask depicting a man with a pink face. The hair is black and carved. Two sets of cutout eyeholes. A small nose is above a parted black mustache and a smiling mouth with white teeth. Incised lines create wrinkles A wire is attached to the back of the mask.

Use

Folk Dance

Context

Baile de los Vaqueros (Dance of the Vaqueros) and Baile de los Mexicanos (Dance of the Mexicans)

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

San Bernardino, Suchitepéquez

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Cowboy, Bull, Boss, Plantation, Mexican, 2014.C-DG.11, Vaquero

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

6-5/8 in

Width

6-1/8 in

Depth

4 in

Material

Wood, Pigment