Cacique (Chief) Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Cacique (Chief) Mask: Wooden male mask with red face, gold painted eyebrows and eyelashes, pink closed mouth, and colorful feathered headdress.
Cacique (Chief) Mask

Wooden male mask with red face, gold painted eyebrows and eyelashes, pink closed mouth, and colorful feathered headdress.

Name/Title

Cacique (Chief) Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.85

Description

A life-sized triangular wood mask depicting a man with a red complexion. With a blue, white, green, red, and yellow feather headdress. Gold painted eyebrows are above two sets of cutout eyeholes. A straight nose is above a closed pink mouth. Incised lines create wrinkles. A wire is attached to the back of the mask.

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

City

Chichicastenango

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

2014.C-DG.85

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

8 in

Depth

5 in

Material

Wood, Pigment, Gesso