Mask
55-12-1
From: Mexico (Central America) | Tarascan (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 55-12-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Uruapan | Micheacan |
| Provenience | Mexico (Central America) | Tarascan (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment | Fiber |
| Description | Wood; carved to represent an old man with a wrinkled forehead, eye slits (below brows), narrow hooked nose, mouth slit, mustache and long beard of which vegetable fibers attached with cloth and tacks. Paitned ivory color with blue eyes, orange lids, cheeks and mouth. Holes for straps. |
| Length | 24 cm |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Joseph Wenger, 1955 |
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