Dramatic Museum Realia

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Dramatic Museum Realia: Masks: Mexico: Gallery 1

Item Information

Carnival mask

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Title

Carnival mask

Description

Carved wood mask of animal with fierce expression. Carlebach describes it as human face with animal teeth, in painted lacquer, black, red and white. Teeth are of bone inserted in open mouth

Source

Dramatic Museum Realia
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Date

modern

Identifier

DM number: M20.01
Box: 121

Coverage

Mexico

Additional Item Metadata

Provenance

gift, Stanley Marcus through Carlebach, 1955

Citation

Persona Grata: An Exhibition of Masks from 1200 B.C. to the Present. (Houston: Jones Hall Fine Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, 1960), no. 151

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Masks (costume)
wood

Physical Dimensions

9.5"x7.625"

Citation

“Carnival mask,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 28, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/realia/item/2513.

Rare Book & Manuscript Library / Butler Library, 6th Fl. East / 535 West 114th St. / New York, NY 10027 / (212) 854-5153 / rbml@libraries.cul.columia.edu