DepartmentLatin America

Male "Ch'uta" festival masks

NameMask

Artist Artist unrecorded

Datec. 1960

Place madeLa Paz, Bolivia, South America

MediumMetal, wire screen, paint, plastic, fabric

Dimensions10 1/4 × 6 × 4 in. (26.035 × 15.24 × 10.16 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1980.2.176X

Object numberA.1980.2.176X

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionMetal screening bent to form face, in bright pink-purple color. Chin covered in two colors of satin, tassel at center. Ornaments with applied mirrors, plastic scraps, tassel, on either side of chin. Painted eyes. Rick-rack eyebrows.

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