- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden mask made for 'loco' or 'fool' dances on the occasion of starting a gold mill at a mining camp. [FB 27/11/2012]
- Long description
- Wooden mask made for 'loco' or 'fool' dances on the occasion of starting a gold mill at a mining camp. The mask is carved from wood and is of a male face with beard and mustache of brown horse hair, held on with nails and leather strips. Eyebrows of ?sheep skin. The eyes have been cut out from the wood. The face is painted with black and white pigment. The mask has been perforated at either side of the eyes through which a length of cotton textile has been secured with a knot. [FB 27/11/2012]
- Geographical reference
- Oaxaca San Pablo Cuatro Venados
- Cultural groups
- Mixtec
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1899
- Date collected
- By 1899
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 10/1899
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Animal Fur Skin, Material Horse Hair Animal, Material Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Nailed, Process Glued, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 370 mm including beard, Width: max 115 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1899.30.2
1899.30.2
Wooden mask made for 'loco' or 'fool' dances on the occasion of starting a gold mill at a mining camp. [FB 27/11/2012]
1899.30.2
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