Mask Item Number: 2956/240 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Carved wooden mask. Mask has a long, stretched, smiling face, showing the upper teeth. He has a protruding nose and a long chin, with incised lines for hair.
Carnival mask. The mask makers of Lazarim have their own unique individual styles and distinctive repertoire of character types; José António da Silva Costa specializes in caricatures of public personalities.
Mask represents Jose Socrates (full name José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa), Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005-2011. Socrates was replaced as prime minister by Pedro Passos Coelho (see mask 2956/239) in 2011. After Socrates lost the election he was ousted as Secretary General of the Portuguese Socialist party.