Diablo Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Diablo Mask: Carved wooden mask painted red depicting a male with black hair and eyebrows; two black horns protrude at the top of the head, two eye holes, a smiling mouth, and a face ends in a pointed chin.
Diablo Mask

Carved wooden mask painted red depicting a male with black hair and eyebrows; two black horns protrude at the top of the head, two eye holes, a smiling mouth, and a face ends in a pointed chin.

Name/Title

Diablo Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.4

Description

A life-sized oval wood mask depicting a man with a blood-red complexion. Black hair and two black horns are on the forehead. Black eyebrows are above cutout eyeholes. A long, flat nose is above a smiling black mouth and a large chin. Nails stick out from the ears. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Some signs of paint loss and wood cracking.

Use

Dance performance

Context

Baile de Judas (Dance of Judas), Baile de los Diablos (Dance of the Devils), Baile de los 24 Diablos (Dance of the 24 Devils), The Story of an Angel, a Devil, and a Drunkard.

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

K’iche’ People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1970 - 1979

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Samayac, Suchitepéquez

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Luzbel (Lucifer), Devil, Judas, Saint Michael, Muerte (Death), 2014.C-DG.4

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

11 in

Width

6-1/2 in

Depth

3-5/16 in

Material

Wood, Gesso, Pigment, Metal