Mask, anthropomorphic: female. Copper with brown hair, multi-colored ribbons, white antlers with red tips. Projections with circles from forehead and chin. Horns meet on top of head. Eye holes below eyes. Lines around nose, strings on forehead anchoring hair. Height: 50.8 cm. (from antlers), Width 16.5 cm.
Donor:
Dorothy Mann Cordry
Collection place:
Altamira region, Guerrero, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Nahua
Collector:
Donald Bush Cordry
Collection date:
1978
Materials:
Antler (material) (deer), Copper (metal), Human hair, and Rayon (ribbons)
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 #22: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (November 4, 1981–January 18, 1982)