Malinche Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Malinche Mask: Wooden mask depicting an older woman with black hair; almond-shaped blackened eye-holes; and with a grimacing open mouth showing a row of white and darkened teeth with a red lower lip
Malinche Mask

Wooden mask depicting an older woman with black hair; almond-shaped blackened eye-holes; and with a grimacing open mouth showing a row of white and darkened teeth with a red lower lip

Name/Title

Malinche Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.138

Description

A life-sized rectangular wood mask depicting an older woman with a muddled pink-brown complexion. The hair is black. Two sets of cutout eyeholes underneath large, black eyebrows. A bumpy nose is above a slightly open mouth with white and gold teeth. There are two black beauty marks, one underneath the proper right eye and the other on the proper left side of the chin. A wire is attached to the back. Signs of pigment loss and cracking.

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 - 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

Woman, 2014.C-DG.138

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

6 in

Depth

5 in

Material

Wood, Pigment, Gesso