Mask
29-60-65
From: Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Coban
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-60-65 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kekchi |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Coban |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Black face with white eye balls; hair and beard represented. For the so called Deer Dance [xahol keh.] "The dancers throw skins over their shoulders, run about dumb or gronting, sometimes act the part of dogs treeing a puma." |
| Height | 19 cm |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | Guatemalan Expedition, Robert Burkitt, 1920 |
| Other Number | 199 - Field No SF |
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