Mask

Museum number:
3-28611
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030028611
Alternate number:
58 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3523
Description:
Mask, anthropomorphic: male. Tan paint on wood, brown hair and brown, upturned mustache. Lines in beard which parted in middle forming 2 points. Small, upturned nose. Pink, smiling mouth. Gold paint in lines of hair. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. Height: 17.8 cm., Width 15.2 cm.
Donor:
Dorothy Mann Cordry
Collection place:
Erongaricuaro municipality, Michoacán, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Purépecha
Collector:
Donald Bush Cordry
Collection date:
1960
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
Loans:
S1981-1982 #5: Department of Art, San Diego State University (August 7, 1981–January 15, 1982)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 3-28611, described as Mask, anthropomorphic: male. Tan paint on wood, brown hair and brown, upturned mustache. Lines in beard which parted in middle forming 2 points. Small, upturned nose. Pink, smiling mouth. Gold paint in lines of hair. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. Height: 17.8 cm., Width 15.2 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 3-28611, described as Mask, anthropomorphic: male. Tan paint on wood, brown hair and brown, upturned mustache. Lines in beard which parted in middle forming 2 points. Small, upturned nose. Pink, smiling mouth. Gold paint in lines of hair. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. Height: 17.8 cm., Width 15.2 cm.

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