Malinche mask
- Museum number:
- 3-28583a
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2103028583a
- Alternate number:
- 29 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3523
- Description:
- 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
- Accession date:
- March 1980
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area