Anthropomorphic mask
- Museum number:
- 3-28565
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030028565
- Alternate number:
- 8 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3523
- Description:
- Mask, anthropomorphic; male. Black base paint on wood. Cigarette in mouth and vertical crack under right eye. Line around tip of nose. Small holes on right cheek and right side of jaw. Much paint worn off. height 18.6 cm., width 13.5 cm.
- Donor:
- Dorothy Mann Cordry
- Collection place:
- Zumpango del Rio, Guerrero, Mexico
- Culture or time period:
- Nahua
- Collector:
- Donald Bush Cordry
- Collection date:
- 1960
- 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
- Context of use:
- Used in a dance called Mulas, Machos or Costeños.
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Loans:
- S1981-1982 #5: Department of Art, San Diego State University (August 7, 1981–January 15, 1982)
- Legacy documentation:
-