Mask
58-37-57
From: Mexico (Central America) | Michoacan | Uruapan
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 58-37-57 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tarascan (uncertain) |
| Provenience | Mexico (Central America) | Michoacan | Uruapan |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Modern wooden mask, made for dances or for tourist sale. Human faces, rude carved-out interiors; smoothed, generally painted exteriors. Eyes and mouth perforated Grotesque ;prominent nose; unnatural lips with inset teeth. Black with red lips, black and white eyes, yellow eyebrows. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Harry B. Wright, 1958 |
| Other Number | L-256-13 - Old Loan Number |
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