Mask: "Tigre"
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 JAGUAR MASK; LACQUER; HEAD PAINTED BRIGHT YELLOW WITH BROWN & BLACK LINES TO INDICATE FUR AROUND WHOLE OF FACE; AREA AROUND MOUTH IS PAINTED A LIGHT BEIGE WITH BLACK DOTS. MOUTH & TONGUE ARE RED, TEETH WHITE. INNER PART OF EARS ARE RED; FOUR ANIMAL TEETH INSERTED INTO HOLES IN MOUTH & ALSO PAINTED WHITE; EYEHOLES ABOVE EYEBROWS; NO HOLES IN MASK FOR FASTENING. MOUTH HAS HOLES,PRESUMABLY FOR AIR; VERY FINE LACQUER WORK, "'TIGRE'... WORN IN LOCAL FESTIVITY AT CARNIVAL TIME. THE 'TIGRE' IS PURSUED & ITS EVENTUAL DEATH ENACTED TO THE UPROARIOUS REJOICING OF DANCERS & SPECTATORS." (RENWICK EXHIBIT CATALOGUE)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Temalacatzingo, 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: E421113-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 29 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 18 cm