Mask Item Number: 2792/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Dance mask worn with dance costume (2792/2 a-b). The carved wood male face has life-like features that include glass brown eyes, long upper eyelashes of blonde hair, and painted flesh tone skin, gold teeth, curly gold hair and sideburns, mustache, eyebrows and lower eyelashes. There is a slit opening at the mouth and several holes have been drilled through the surface; the two nostrils, two at the bridge of the nose, one at the top of each ear and one at the top of the head.
History Of Use
Mask used in the Dance of the Conquest, in Guatemala.
Item History
- Made in Guatemala
- Collected by Anthony A. Shelton
- Owned by Baker's Dozen Antiques before March 1, 2010
- Received from Baker's Dozen Antiques (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Acquisitions Budget (Funding source) on March 1, 2010
What
Who
- Culture
- Guatemalan
- Field Collector
- Anthony A. Shelton
- Previous Owner
- Baker's Dozen Antiques
- Received from
- Baker's Dozen Antiques (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Acquisitions Budget (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Guatemala
When
- Ownership Date
- before March 1, 2010
- Acquisition Date
- on March 1, 2010
Other
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2792/0001