Cristiano Mask
Cristiano Mask
Painted wood mask depicting a bald male with heavy gold sideburns and mustache; blue glass eyes with lower lashes; swaths of blue paint above eyebrows and along the chin; open down-turned mouth with white and gold teeth; and with a pleated white ruff along the bottom half of the face
Name/Title
Cristiano MaskEntry/Object ID
2014.C-DG.66Description
A large round wood mask depicting a bald man with an apricot orange complexion with a peach blush. With large blue eyebrows over cutout eyeholes for the wearer and inset blue eyebrows with gold painted lashes. There are gold-curled sideburns and a gold-parted mustache. A large straight nose is above a parted mouth with white and gold teeth. There is a half-circle white ruff around the lower edge of the mask. A wire and red and blue fabric are attached to the back of the mask.Use
PerformanceContext
Baile de Moros y Cristianos (Dance of Moors and Christians)Collection
Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Kekchi PeopleAttribution
Attributed toRole
MakerDate made
circa 1960 - 1969Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Country
GuatemalaRegion
Central AmericaEthnography
Cultural Region
City
Cobán, Alta VerpazCountry
GuatemalaRegion
Central AmericaCulture/Tribe
Kekchi People
Maya