Cristiano Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Cristiano Mask: Colorful wood mask depicting a male with pink face, red stripe across nose and cheeks, down forehead, and highlighting lips; green pigment under chin and accenting eyes; brown slanted eyebrows and brown rolled mustache curls, all set on a fabric collar.
Cristiano Mask

Colorful wood mask depicting a male with pink face, red stripe across nose and cheeks, down forehead, and highlighting lips; green pigment under chin and accenting eyes; brown slanted eyebrows and brown rolled mustache curls, all set on a fabric collar.

Name/Title

Cristiano Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.37

Description

A life-sized triangular wood mask depicting a man with a rose-pink complexion. Slanted brown eyebrows are over two sets of cutout eyeholes, one outlined with green. A large, straight, red-tipped nose is above a circular, parted brown mustache and a slightly open red mouth. The chin is painted green. There is a half-circle white ruff around the lower edge of the mask. A wire and rope are attached to the back of the mask.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de Moros y Cristianos

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Kekchi People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1960 - 1969

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

City

Cobán, Alta Verpaz

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Culture/Tribe

Kekchi People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Christian, 2014.C-DG.37

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

9-5/8 in

Width

8 in

Depth

5-7/8 in

Material

Wood, Cloth, Gesso, Pigment