DepartmentLatin America

Carnival mask

NameMask

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Datec. 1960

Place madeMexico City?, Mexico, North America

MediumWood, gesso, paint, varnish

Dimensions18 1/8 × 10 5/8 × 15 3/8 in. (46 × 27 × 39 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Founation Collection, A.1979.6.382

Object numberA.1979.6.382

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionCarved, gessoed, painted, varnished, flesh colored, hair, eyebrows, moustache, goatee modeled and painted black, eyes painted with detail, large ears above eye level on both sides, lips painted red, chin and cheeks protrude.

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