Vaquero Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Vaquero Mask: Carved wood male mask with pink face, brown hair over forehead, and small, parted brown mustache
Vaquero Mask

Carved wood male mask with pink face, brown hair over forehead, and small, parted brown mustache

Name/Title

Vaquero Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.30

Description

A life-sized square wood mask depicting a man with a rouge pink complexion. Carved brown hair. Two sets of cutout eyeholes. A small nose is above a parted brown mustache and a closed mouth. A copper wire is attached to the back of the mask. Various paint chipping and scuff marks.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de los Tunes (Dance of the Drums)

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

San Bernardino, Suchitepéquez

Culture/Tribe

K'iché People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

Cowboy, 2014.C-DG.30, Vaquero

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

6-3/16 in

Width

5-13/16 in

Depth

4-13/16 in

Material

Wood, Gesso, Pigment