Mask: "Devil"
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; LACQUERED DEVIL FACE WITH 2 HORNS; MAIN PART OF FACE IS BLACK, EARS, MOUTH & HORNS ARE RED; A SKELETON PAINTED WHITE & BLACK & GOLD FORMS THE EYEBROWS, NOSE & MUSTACHE OF THE DEVIL'S FACE. DEVIL'S MOUTH IS RED WITH WHITE TEETH & 2 INSERTED FANGS; EYES ARE BULGING WHITE WITH BLACK CENTERS & RED OUTLINES. EYEHOLES ARE JUSTABOVE PAINTED EYES MOUTH IS OPEN. NO HOLES FOR FASTENING; HORNS HAVE STRING THAT IS TIED THROUGH HOLES & AROUND BACKOF MASK; ALSO SOME BEESWAX FOR GLUING IN PLACE. "'DEVIL' ...WORN IN 'DANCE OF 7 VICES' PERFORMED DURING CHRISTMAS SEASON IN SURBURBS OF URUAPAN." (300 PESOS) (RENWICK EXHIBIT CATALOGUE)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Uruapan, Michoacan, 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: E421132-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 21.5 cm