Mask

Museum number:
3-28575
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030028575
Alternate number:
20 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3523
Description:
Mask; anthropomorphic-male. Brown base paint on wood. Horns with fur at base and along jaw line. Painted design at base of horns. Large, bulging eyes, hooked nose with a ring, large nostrils, 4 tusks in open mouth. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. H 42 cm (from horns); W 23.8 cm (from ears)
Donor:
Dorothy Mann Cordry
Collection place:
Ixcapaneca, Guerrero, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Guerrero; Ixcapaneca; Nahua
Culture or time period:
Nahua
Collector:
Donald Bush Cordry
Collection date:
1973
Materials:
Fur (hair material), Horn (animal material), Plastic (organic material), 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 Tres Potencias; devil mask
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 23.8 centimeters and height 42 centimeters
Comment:
H-21-7
Loans:
S1981-1982 #22: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (November 4, 1981–January 18, 1982), S2009-2010 #11b: SFO Museum (dates unknown), and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 3-28575, described as Mask; anthropomorphic-male. Brown base paint on wood. Horns with fur at base and along jaw line. Painted design at base of horns. Large, bulging eyes, hooked nose with a ring, large nostrils, 4 tusks in open mouth. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. H 42 cm (from horns); W 23.8 cm (from ears)Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 3-28575, described as Mask; anthropomorphic-male. Brown base paint on wood. Horns with fur at base and along jaw line. Painted design at base of horns. Large, bulging eyes, hooked nose with a ring, large nostrils, 4 tusks in open mouth. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. H 42 cm (from horns); W 23.8 cm (from ears)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 3-28575, described as Mask; anthropomorphic-male. Brown base paint on wood. Horns with fur at base and along jaw line. Painted design at base of horns. Large, bulging eyes, hooked nose with a ring, large nostrils, 4 tusks in open mouth. Eye slits between eyes and eyebrows. H 42 cm (from horns); W 23.8 cm (from ears)

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