Mask: "Tigre" (Jaguar)
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, DECORATED WITH LEATHER, ANIMAL BRISTLES & GLASS (AMBER) FOR EYES; JAGUAR HEAD; WOODEN FACE MASK WITHLEATHER HEAD COVERING IN 3 PIECES. PAINTED OVER ALL A LIGHT OCHRE WITH BLACK CIRCLES, DOTS & LINES AS MARKINGS; LEATHER BACK IS PAINTED IN SAME MANNER & IS NAILED TO SIDES & TOP OF MASK. EYEBROWS, LASHES, WHISKERS & LINE DOWN CENTER OF NOSE ARE BLACK; MOUTH, TONGUE & NOSTRILS RED; WOODEN TEETH WHITE. ANIMAL BRISTLES WHITE & BROWN GLUED TO BROWS ABOVE & BELOW MOUTH; EYES BLACK CIRCLES WITH AMBER COLORED GLASS COVERING (PROB. FROM BEER BOTTLE); EYEHOLES DRILLED THROUGH MOUTH; FASTENING BY MEANS OF 3-PIECE LEATHER HELMET. "'TIGRE'...WORN IN AN EXTRAORDINARY DANCE PERFORMED IN STREETS OF ACATLAN AT CARNIVAL & DAY OF DEAD. DANCE ENDS IN CEMETERY, WHERE DEATH OF 'TIGRE' IS ENACTED." (625 PESOS) (RENWICK EXHIBIT CATALOGUE)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Acatlan, Puebla, 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: E421153-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 25 cm