Unknown Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Unknown Mask: Wooden male mask with black hair, mustache, and goatee; wide staring green eyes with narrow eye-holes; red parted lips; and blue chin
Unknown Mask

Wooden male mask with black hair, mustache, and goatee; wide staring green eyes with narrow eye-holes; red parted lips; and blue chin

Name/Title

Unknown Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.119

Description

A life-sized square wood mask depicting a man with an ivory complexion and red accents on the forehead, nose, and cheeks. Parted black hair decorated with incised lines. Two cutout eyeholes above painted blue and black eyes. Straight black eyebrows and a straight nose. A parted black mustache is above a slightly parted red mouth. A small black goatee is on a painted sky-blue chin. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Overall signs of pigment loss and cracking.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de las Plumas (Dance of the Feathers)

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Poqomchi' People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1950 - 1959

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Palín, Escuintla

Culture/Tribe

Poqomchi' People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

2014.C-DG.119

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

8-1/8 in

Width

7-3/8 in

Depth

5 in

Material

Wood, Gesso, Pigment