DepartmentLatin America

Festival mask

NameMask

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Datec. 1986

Place madeMachoacan, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

MediumWood, gesso, paint

Dimensions10 7/16 × 9 1/16 × 5 7/8 in. (26.5 × 23 × 15 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Barbara and Robin Cleaver, A.1987.473.1

Object numberA.1987.473.1

DescriptionCarved, gessoed, painted wooden mask of black man with afro. Full beard and mustache. Hair painted with glossy black paint, black of skin areas less glossy. Down turned reddish-brown lips follow conture of mustache. Eye slits cut over painted-on eyes.