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Start Over Culture or time period Northern Mesoamerican cultures Function 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28560, described as Mask; anthropometric: male. Wood with distorted features. Crooked mouth, bent nose with mart on right side, left eye bulges. Cracks down nose and right cheek. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. Height 19 cm, width 14.5 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28558, described as anthropomorphic: male. flesh-colored base paint on wood. pink cheeks, black hair, eyebrows, mustache and beard. moveable jaw held with wooden pegs. lines on forehead. thin eye slits below eyes. crack on left side, starting near mouth. paint missing on forehead.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28394, described as Mask, anthropomorphic; carved of light weight, dark stained wood; eye slits above the eyeballs, grinning mouth with protruding lower lip; flower incised on forehead; holes in upper, outer corners for attaching to wearer. height 17 cm., width 14.5 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28392, described as Mask; anthropomorphic, carved from light weight dark stained wood; features are aslant of the face, mouth has lips apart, nose is enlarged, eyes have slit above the eyeball for wearer to see through; incised butterfly on forehead; hole each side at upper, outer corner for tying mask to face/head of wearer. height 16 cm, width 14 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28401, described as Mask, anthropomorphic; featureless face carved in light, dark stained wood; bas relief figures of man carrying basket/load on back and woman carrying basket on arm. Inside and out of mask rubbed with red ochre; purple vegetable fiber (dyed) attached. Height 20 cm, width 17 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28393, described as Mask, anthropomorphic; carved from light weight, dark stained wood; features include eye slits above the eyeball, flattened nose, lips closed on mouth, mouth and chin moveable as lower lip and chin are separate piece, incised ear outlines and deeply incised wrinkles in cheeks; holes in upper outer corners of mask for attaching mask to wearer; flaw in wood gives appearance of a scar on forehead. height 16 cm., width 14 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28565, described as Mask, anthropomorphic; male. Black base paint on wood. Cigarette in mouth and vertical crack under right eye. Line around tip of nose. Small holes on right cheek and right side of jaw. Much paint worn off. height 18.6 cm., width 13.5 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-26959, described as mask, anthropomorphic; twisted nose, incised lines on forehead and away from mouth; remnants of red animal hair eyebrows and moustache; leather strap, tongue; said to be worn by Volador performers
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bow, accession number 3-16510d, described as Part of wooden bow-sword; bow, twig; Length ca 39.5 cm
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowstring, accession number 3-16510e, described as Part of wooden bow-sword; bow string, fiber; Length 63.5 cm

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