Mask: "Man's Face"
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: MASK MADE OF WIRE SCREEN, CLOTH & FIBERS. MAN'S FACE WITH BEARD. FACE PAINTED WITH PINK LACQUER; EYES WHITE OUTLINED IN BLACK WITH BLACK CENTERS; MOUTH RED; BROWS, MUSTACHE & BEARD FORMED OF A WHITE CURLY FIBER; HAS 2 COTTON STRIPS ATTACHED TO BACK FOR FASTENING TO HEAD OF WEARER. "'CHINELO'...WORN IN A DANCE PERFORMED AT CARNIVALTIME. DANCERS WEAR LONG, FANCEY, EMBROIDERED CHEMISES & MAGNIFICENT TOQUES IN IMITATION OF 17TH CENTURY EUROPEANS & DANCE TO A POLKA RHYTHM FROM THAT PERIOD WHICH THEY CALLTHE 'CHINELO' OR 'LITTLE JUMP'." (250 PESOS) (RENWICK EXHIBIT CATALOGUE)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tepoxtlan, Morelos, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mexican
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 353025
label: USNM Number
content: E421135-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 18 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 16 cm