Máscara de Carnaval
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1980
notes: label: Description
content: This elaborate mask, made around 1980, is painted in red and black, the colors of the city of Ponce. Masks like this are typically worn by young men from the neighborhood, who don the costume of a <i>vejigante</i>, a character who roams the streets during Carnival, playfully scaring children and other revelers, and swatting them with <i>vejigas</i> (balloon-like, inflated animal bladders).
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Esta elaborada máscara, confeccionada alrededor de 1980, está pintada en rojo y negro, los colores de la ciudad de Ponce. Para la época del carnaval, los jóvenes del barrio acostumbran a disfrazarse de vejigantes con máscaras como ésta y salen a deambular por las calles asustando a los niños y concurrentes a la fiesta, dándoles palmadas con sus vejigas (vejigas de animales infladas como globos y puestas a secar).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title
content: Carnival Mask
topic: label: Subject
content: Carnivals
label: Subject
content: Costume
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.0016
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.0016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Carnival Mask
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: papier mache; paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: handmade (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: papier mache (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 72.5 cm x 67.2 cm x 40.3 cm; 28 9/16 in x 26 7/16 in x 15 7/8 in