Mexicano Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Mexicano Mask: Wooden male mask with wide, smiling mouth showing rows of white teeth and red lips, a large protruding nose, brown inset eyes with eye holes under a protruding brow, and curly stylized hair, sideburns, and mustache
Mexicano Mask

Wooden male mask with wide, smiling mouth showing rows of white teeth and red lips, a large protruding nose, brown inset eyes with eye holes under a protruding brow, and curly stylized hair, sideburns, and mustache

Name/Title

Mexicano Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.112

Description

A life-sized triangular wood mask depicting a man with umber-brown skin and red-purple blush accents on cheeks and nose. There is stylized black hair, sideburns, and a parted mustache. Painted eyebrows over two cutout eyeholes for the wearer and inset brown eyes outlined with black brows. A large, curved, extended nose is above a smiling red mouth with white teeth. A wire is attached to the back. Overall signs of pigment loss and scratching.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de 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 1960 - 1969

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Sololá, Sololá

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Mexican, 2014.C-DG.112

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

7-1/2 in

Depth

6-5/16 in

Material

Wood, Gesso, Pigment, Glass