Mask
Item number 2655/148 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number 2655/148 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Overall red portrait mask with bulging forehead. The forehead has carved grooves on its sides and at its centre. The face has carved black eyebrows with carved grooved eyelashes and cut-out slits on upper eyelids, slanted oval-shaped white coloured eyes with black coloured pupils, a long protruding nose with exaggerated cheek bones, a wide and thin cut-out mouth with three staggered white coloured teeth, two at the top and one at the bottom of the mouth, and a long pointed chin that slopes upwards.
Viejo, Old People mask from Patzcuaro. Used in Old Man Dances (or Tare-Uarariecha in Purepecha) in which the protagonists, represented with near toothless masks, stagger around on walking sticks.
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Overall red portrait mask with bulging forehead. The forehead has carved grooves on its sides and at its centre. The face has carved black eyebrows with carved grooved eyelashes and cut-out slits on upper eyelids, slanted oval-shaped white coloured eyes with black coloured pupils, a long protruding nose with exaggerated cheek bones, a wide and thin cut-out mouth with three staggered white coloured teeth, two at the top and one at the bottom of the mouth, and a long pointed chin that slopes upwards.
Viejo, Old People mask from Patzcuaro. Used in Old Man Dances (or Tare-Uarariecha in Purepecha) in which the protagonists, represented with near toothless masks, stagger around on walking sticks.
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