Maximón Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Maximón Mask: Unpainted, wooden male mask with almond-shaped eye holes and almond-shaped open mouth below a thin, bi-sectioned mustache
Maximón Mask

Unpainted, wooden male mask with almond-shaped eye holes and almond-shaped open mouth below a thin, bi-sectioned mustache

Name/Title

Maximón Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.111

Description

A life-sized square wood mask depicting a man with mottled textured skin. Thin eyebrows above almond-shaped cutout eyeholes. A flat nose is above a skinny mustache and a cutout almond-shaped mouth.

Use

Performance

Context

Maximón

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

* Untyped Cultural Region

Nahualá, Sololá

Culture/Tribe

Unknown

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Maximon, 2014.C-DG.111

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

7-1/8 in

Depth

1-3/4 in

Material

Wood