Devil mask
- Museum number:
- 3-15928
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030015928
- Accession number:
- Acc.1293
- Description:
- Face mask, wood, handcarved; in shape of devil, with horns attached to string from back of mask; gold and black painted horns, white fangs, red and blue facial creases painted on black ground; L 24.0 cm X W 17.7 cm X H 15.2 cm
- Donor:
- Jean Clennell Cooke
- Collection place:
- Tocuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mexico, Michoacan, Tocuaro
- Collector:
- Jean Clennell Cooke
- Collection date:
- 1959
- Materials:
- Paint (coating) and 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:
- 1959
- Context of use:
- dance mask
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- length 24 centimeters, width 17.7 centimeters, and height 15.2 centimeters
- Comment:
- H-8-5
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #21: Anthropology Department, Vallejo Junior College/Everett F. McCartney (October 22, 1964–November 17, 1964), S1966-1967 #3: Education Department (UC Berkeley) (August 12, 1966–September 2, 1966), S1967-1968 #126: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Vera Mae Frederickson (April 22, 1968–April 23, 1968), and S1968-1969 #28: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Ruth Boyer (October 18, 1968–December 4, 1968)
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- Legacy documentation:
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