Mask

About this object

Cultural context

Folk art; made for sale at local shops and markets.

Iconographic meaning

Marquez-style devil mask. The style of this type of mask would have been influenced by pictures of classical Greek sculpture in books or magazines.

Physical description

Mask of man’s face with black curly hair, moustache, and beard, curvilinear horns, elongated pointed ears, bulbous eyes and a fierce expression. Face has a dark complexion and is decorated across nose and cheeks with horizontal stripes of yellow, red, and white.