Gracejo (Joker) Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Gracejo (Joker) Mask: Carved wood mask depicting a smiling, young male with his tongue between his teeth, brown coiffed hair, rosy cheeks and nose, and blue, lash-fringed glass eyes.
Gracejo (Joker) Mask

Carved wood mask depicting a smiling, young male with his tongue between his teeth, brown coiffed hair, rosy cheeks and nose, and blue, lash-fringed glass eyes.

Name/Title

Gracejo (Joker) Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.26

Description

A life-sized circular wood mask depicting a man with a warm beige complexion and bright peach blush accents on the nose and cheeks. There is carved brown hair. Brown eyebrows are over cutout eyeholes for the wearer and inset blue glass eyes with painted black lashes underneath and incised lines mimicking crow’s feet wrinkles. A large, straight nose is above an open mouth with a protruding tongue. The chin is painted teal. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Some signs of paint chipping.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de Moros y Cristianos (Dance of the Moors and Christians)

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Kekchi People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1970 - 1979

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

Mox (Fool), 2014.C-DG.26, Joker, Gracejo

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

6-1/2 in

Width

6-3/8 in

Depth

5-1/8 in

Material

Wood, Gesso, Pigment, Glass