Cristiano Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Cristiano Mask: Male wooden mask with exaggerated features and colors, such as large gold eyebrows and great swirls of gold mustache upon a pink face with red lips, nose and cheeks, painted eyes with fabric eyelashes, all set atop a blue and gold chin.
Cristiano Mask

Male wooden mask with exaggerated features and colors, such as large gold eyebrows and great swirls of gold mustache upon a pink face with red lips, nose and cheeks, painted eyes with fabric eyelashes, all set atop a blue and gold chin.

Name/Title

Cristiano Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.38

Description

A life-sized triangular wood mask depicting a man with a flamingo-pink complexion. Large, curved gold eyebrows are over cutout eyeholes for the wearer and painted black eyes. A triangular red nose is above a dramatically large, curled, gold parted mustache and a frowning red mouth. A gold goatee is on a painted blue chin. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Lashes are falling off and there are some cracks.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de Moros y Cristiano

Collection

Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Poqomchi' People

Attribution

Attributed to

Role

Maker

Date made

circa 1960 - 1969

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Country

Guatemala

Region

Central America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Palín, Escuintla

Culture/Tribe

Poqomchi' People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Christian, 2014.C-DG.38

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

8-1/4 in

Width

7-3/8 in

Depth

4-1/2 in

Material

Wood, Pigment, Gesso, Plastic