Malinche Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Malinche Mask: Wood mask depicting a smiling woman with inset glass eyes, wearer's eyeholes beneath a heavy brow, and with an up-swept stylized hair
Malinche Mask

Wood mask depicting a smiling woman with inset glass eyes, wearer's eyeholes beneath a heavy brow, and with an up-swept stylized hair

Name/Title

Malinche Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.198

Description

A life-sized triangle wood mask depicting a woman with a sooty, rose-beige complexion. The hair is blonde and in an up-swept stylized hairstyle. Inset glass eyes are under cutout eyeholes for the wearer. A straight nose is above a small smiling mouth with white and gold teeth and red lips. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Signs of chipping and pigment loss.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de la Conquista (Dance of the Conquest)

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

K’iche’ People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1960 - circa 1969

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Highlands of Guatemala, Central America

Country

Guatemala

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

2014.C-DG.198

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

8-5/8 in

Width

7-1/2 in

Depth

4-1/2 in

Material

Wood, Gesso, Pigment, Fur, Acorns