Anthropomorphic Malinche mask; red base paint on wood; gold dimples on each cheek; small green lizards on each cheek, bee on bridge of nose; small eye slits above eyes; holes across top of head; height 17 cm, width 13 cm.
Donor:
Dorothy Mann Cordry
Collection place:
Guerrero, Mexico, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, Guerrero, Nahua
Culture or time period:
Nahua
Collector:
Donald Bush Cordry
Collection date:
before 1978
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama