Mask

Museum number:
3-28629
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
75 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3523
Description:
Mask, anthropomorphic: male. Wood. Right half of face blue and left orange. Three teeth showing and two faces on cheeks. Eye holes between faces. Much paint worn off. Height: 23.6 cm., Width 15.3 cm.
Donor:
Dorothy Mann Cordry
Collection place:
Atenxoxola, 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
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 3-28629, described as Mask, anthropomorphic: male. Wood. Right half of face blue and left orange. Three teeth showing and two faces on cheeks. Eye holes between faces. Much paint worn off. Height: 23.6 cm., Width 15.3 cm.

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