Anthropomorphic mask

Museum number:
3-28560
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3523
Description:
Mask; anthropometric: male. Wood with distorted features. Crooked mouth, bent nose with mart on right side, left eye bulges. Cracks down nose and right cheek. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. Height 19 cm, width 14.5 cm.
Donor:
Dorothy Mann Cordry
Collection place:
San Martin Pachivia, Guerrero, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Nahua
Collector:
Donald Bush Cordry
Collection date:
1974
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Anthropomorphic and 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
Dimensions:
height 19 centimeters and width 14.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28560, described as Mask; anthropometric: male. Wood with distorted features. Crooked mouth, bent nose with mart on right side, left eye bulges. Cracks down nose and right cheek. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. Height 19 cm, width 14.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28560, described as Mask; anthropometric: male. Wood with distorted features. Crooked mouth, bent nose with mart on right side, left eye bulges. Cracks down nose and right cheek. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. Height 19 cm, width 14.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Anthropomorphic mask, accession number 3-28560, described as Mask; anthropometric: male. Wood with distorted features. Crooked mouth, bent nose with mart on right side, left eye bulges. Cracks down nose and right cheek. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. Height 19 cm, width 14.5 cm.

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