Mask: "Fish" Dance
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Sep 1982
label: Collection Date
content: Ca. 1982
name: label: Donor Name
content: Government Of Mexico
notes: label: Notes
content: WOOD WITH LEATHER; ANIMAL-DEVIL MASK WITH LEATHER TONGUE, INSERTED FANG-LIKE TEETH & LONG-HAIRED HUMAN FIGURE COMING OUT OF FOREHEAD. ANIMAL FIGURE IS PAINTED BLACK; NOSTRILS, MOUTH & TONGUE ARE RED; EYES WHITE WITH BLACK CENTERS & OUTLINED IN RED; TEETH WHITE; HUMAN FIGURE IS PAINTED PINK, EYES OUTLINED IN BLACK WITH BLACK LASHES, MOUTH RED; HAIR BLACK. SOME UNDERCOATING OF GREEN PAINT SHOWS THRU ENTIRE MASK; EYEHOLES ARE LOCATED IN THE MOUTH OF MASK. HOLES AT EITHER SIDE & ONE THRU BODY OF TOPPERSON FOR FASTENING. "MASK USED IN FISH DANCE...WORN DURING CARNIVAL FESTIVITIES IN A DANCE IN WHICH VARIOUS AQUATIC ANIMALS SERVE AS FERTILITY SYMBOLS IN RAIN DANCE."(625 PESOS) (RENWICK EXHIBIT CATALOGUE)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: El Ahuacate, Guerrero, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mexican
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 353025
label: USNM Number
content: E421108-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 21 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 15 cm