Mask: "Skull"
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; SKULL PAINTED WHITE; EYE SOCKETS CARVED DEEP INTO MASK, GIVING HIGH RIDGE-LIKE EFFECT AROUND CHEEKS & FOREHEAD; NOSE IS EXTREMELY THIN. EYES & LASHES OUTLINED IN BLACK. TEETH OUTLINED IN LIGHT GREEN WITH 4 GOLD COLORED TEETH. EYEHOLES CUT THROUGH PAINTED EYES. ONE HOLE ON EITHER SIDEFOR FASTENING. CORD IN BACK HAS A BLUE POM-POM (SMALL). "SKULL...WORN AT CARNIVAL TIME & ON DAY OF THE DEAD." (500 PESOS) (RENWICK EXHIBIT CATALOGUE)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pinotepa De Don Luis, Oaxaca, 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: E421146-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 14 cm