Mask: "Tigre" 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; CARVED FROM SINGLE PIECE. MAN WITH SMALL WHITE HEAD ABOVE HIS OWN & A TIGER-DEVIL FIGURE AT HIS CHIN. HIS HAIR IS BLACK & AT EITHER SIDE OF HIS FACE ARE SNAKES. MAN'S FACE IS YELLOW; EYES OUTLINED IN RED WITH BLACK LASHES, BLACK CENTERS, BROWS BLACK, NOSTRILS, MOUTH & TONGUE ARE RED; MUSTACHE & HAIR BLACK; SMALL HEAD AT TOP IS WHITE, CHEEKS & MOUTH RED, EYES, HAIR & BROWS ARE BLACK. TIGRE HEAD IS YELLOW WITH BLACK & RED SPOTS & LINES; MOUTH & TONGUE RED; EYES OUTLINED IN RED WITH BLACKCENTERS. ONE SNAKE IS PINK WITH RED LINES, THE OTHER GREY WITH BLACK LINES. EYE HOLES ABOVE PAINTED EYES. MASK HAS NO HOLES FOR FASTENING. "MASK USED IN TIGRE DANCE...WORN IN LOCAL FESTIVITIES AT CARNIVAL TIME. TIGRE IS PURSUED & ITS EVENTUAL DEATH ENACTED TO THE UPROARIOUS REJOICING OF DANCERS & SPECTATORS." (RENWICK EXHIBITION CATALOGUE)
label: Notes
content: Mask on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2017 - 2024. From exhibit label: Carnival mask, This mask combines images relating to the dance of the Tecuani, a Nahuatl word meaning jaguar or wild thing. Many different towns perform versions of this theatrical enactment during carnivals in the central Mexican state of Guerrero.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Nov 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ahuehuepan, 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: E421097-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24 cm