Dance Mask: Devil
date: label: Collection Date
content: Early 1950's
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Donald B. Cordry
label: Collector
content: Mrs. Dorothy M. Cordry
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Donald B. Cordry
notes: label: Notes
content: WOOD - CARVED FROM SINGLE PIECE. DEVIL MASK W/2 HORNS (GOAT?) INSERTED AT FOREHEAD. THE HORNS ARE NAILED INTO MASK. FACE IS PAINTED BLACK. THE VERY LARGE EARS, EYES, NOSTRILS, & MOUTH ARE RED, AS ARE THE TIPS OF THE BLACK HORNS. THE EYEHOLES ARE ABOVE THE PAINTED EYES, NOSTRILS AND MOUTH ARE CUT THROUGH - ONE HOLE AT TOP & FOUR AT EITHER SIDE FOR FASTENING. "DEVIL MASK (CORDRY 1970). (* ACCORDING TO MRS. CORDRY'S LIST THIS MASK ORIGINALLY CAME FROM MICHOACAN & IS THERFORE TARASCAN.??)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Canada De Gavilan, Guerrero, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nahua
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 355867
label: USNM Number
content: E419887-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25.4 cm
label: Width - At Horns
content: 34 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24 cm