Mask
- Museum number:
- 3-28624
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030028624
- Alternate number:
- 71 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3523
- Description:
- Mask: zoomorphic - rooster. Red and yellow paint on wood. Red wattle with flowing grooved lines. Blue eyes rimmed with red. Yellow around beak, eyes and top of head. Black and white marks. Red comb. Design worn off on right side of face. Beak open. Holes in wattle, head, and comb. H 34.5 (from comb to wattle) W 18.3 cm
- Donor:
- Dorothy Mann Cordry
- Collection place:
- San Martin Pachivia, Guerrero, Mexico
- Culture or time period:
- Nahua
- Collector:
- Donald Bush Cordry
- Collection date:
- 1965
- 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:
- March 1980
- Context of use:
- Used in the Dance of the Rooster
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- width 18.3 centimeters and height 34.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1981-1982 #22: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (November 4, 1981–January 18, 1982)
- Legacy documentation:
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