Tigre (Tiger) Mask

Object/Artifact

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Tigre (Tiger) Mask: Wooden tiger mask painted orange with black spots across the nose and cheeks; additional decorated with white circles along the sides and across the head; glass eyes with additional eye-holes under the black eyebrows: and with a wide, red, open mouth and large white teeth
Tigre (Tiger) Mask

Wooden tiger mask painted orange with black spots across the nose and cheeks; additional decorated with white circles along the sides and across the head; glass eyes with additional eye-holes under the black eyebrows: and with a wide, red, open mouth and large white teeth

Name/Title

Tigre (Tiger) Mask

Entry/Object ID

2014.C-DG.54

Description

A life-sized circular wood mask depicting an orange tiger with black spots on the face and white circles on the perimeter. Two cutout eyeholes for the wearer are above inset black eyes outlined with black lashes. A large nose is above an open red mouth with large white teeth. Blue string and copper wire are attached to the back.

Use

Performance

Context

Baile de Venado (Dance of the Deer)

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

* Untyped Cultural Region

San Cristóbal, Alta Verapaz

Culture/Tribe

Kekchi People
Maya

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Masks

Search Terms

2014.C-DG.54, Tiger, Tigre

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Mask

Class

Performance

Category

Costume

Dimensions

Height

9-3/16 in

Width

7-13/16 in

Depth

4-3/16 in

Material

Wood, Pigment, Gesso, Fabric