Vaquero Mask
Vaquero Mask
Badly worn carved wood male mask with carved black hair and mustache; two sets of eye holes; mottled face from layered paint loss; and long, horizontal crack, with repairs, down the face
Name/Title
Vaquero MaskEntry/Object ID
2014.C-DG.185Description
A life-sized circular mask depicting a male figure with carved black hair and parted mustache. Two sets of cutout eyeholes. A small nose is above the mustache and an open mouth. A wire is attached to the back of the mask. Heavily worn with severe cracking, loss of pigment, and broken in two.Use
PerformanceContext
Baile del Torito (Dance of the Bull)Collection
Campbell-Dowdey Guatemalan Mask CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
K’iche’ PeopleAttribution
Attributed toRole
MakerDate made
circa 1930 - circa 1939Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Country
GuatemalaRegion
Central AmericaEthnography
Cultural Region
* Untyped Cultural Region
San Cristóbal, TotonicapanCulture/Tribe
K'iché People
Maya