Mask for a Costume for a Horse used in Pagents
date: label: Date made
content: 1920 - 1929
name: label: maker
content: John B. Rogers Producing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Part of costume for a horse, to be fit as mask over head of horse. Upper portion is green velvet with holes cut out for ears, plume head, and eyes bordered with heavy gray material. There are one metal ring, one cut brown shoelace, and one gray plastic rope for fastening. Below the head area is a larger area to cover neck of maroon velvet with 2 Vs made of strips of pink brocade having gold metallic thread. For the mane, two rows of gray rope-fringe are sewn down the middle, safety pin is attached to middle tab.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The horse mask was part of a stock costume furnished by the John B. Rogers Production Company of Fostoria, Ohio, one of many firms that became active in the 1920s. Made for use in a pageant. Community historical pageants became an important form of popular civic celebration from 1900 to 1930. Under the direction of professional pageant masters, the town residents themselves acted in various episodes, performed dances and sang songs often especially written for the themes and events depicted. Special and stock scripts as well as costumes and props were supplied by commercial firms that turned the staging of pageants into a national enterprise. The perseverance of pioneers conquering the wilderness and defending new homes against Native Americans, the great battles of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and the nobility of the ordinary, hard-working people, all punctuated by thematic music and folk dancing, were standard ingredients.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Theater
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Rogers Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0302.13A
label: accession number
content: 1980.0302
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0302.13A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mask
label: Object Name
content: mask
label: Object Name
content: costume
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (open): 43 1/2 in; 110.49 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall (folded): 34 in; 86.36 cm