DepartmentLatin America

Tiger mask

NameMask

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Datec. 1960

Place madeChiapas, Mexico, North America

MediumGourd, fiber, leather, paper, paint

Dimensions5 1/2 × 7 7/8 × 4 15/16 in. (14 × 20 × 12.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.6.468

Object numberA.1979.6.468

DescriptionHalf gourd; painted orange with black spots, whiskers; red mouth; silver nose, eyebrows; blue eyes. Metal ears. Leather mouth built on; cloth tongue; paper fangs. Paint chipped badly. Spotted cloth attached to rim to cover back of wearer's head.