DepartmentLatin America

Vieja (old woman) mask for the Tatash dance

NameMask

Artist Artist unrecorded

Dateca. 1940

Place madeHuánuco, Peru, South America

MediumWood, pigment, leather or fiber, soil

DimensionsOverall: 7 1/2 x 6 x 2 3/4 in. (19.05 x 15.24 x 6.985 cm)

Credit LineIFAF Collection

Object numberFA.2006.12.2

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionPainted wood mask - brown and black. With brown color on right front of face and black on lower area and chin -pink lips - cloth (?) or leather (?) eyebrows attached to wooden mask. Bulging white eyeballs with black pupils extend from mask just below eyeholes. Painted string on reverse.