Mask, anthropomorphic: male. Orange base paint on wood. Black, lined beard and red, open mouth. Broad, flat nose and brown fruit-like design on each cheek. Purple forehead with 3 spiral snail-like designs. Hole in left side of beard. Height: 24 cm., Width 17.3 cm.
Donor:
Dorothy Mann Cordry
Collection place:
El Coral, Guerrero, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Nahua
Collector:
Donald Bush Cordry
Collection date:
1978
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:
S1982-1983 #35: California State University, Chico (April 5, 1983–July 26, 1984)