Description:

North America, Mexico, ca. mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden mask used during the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) festival. The stylized human face boasts huge ovoid eyes, a prominent nose, and pursed lips, all brought forth with yellow, black, and red-orange pigment atop a white ground. The head is surmounted by a stylized lizard head exhibiting a pinched snout and black-painted scales against lime-green pigment, and a stylized feline sits atop the bird with a crested orange-and-white body with black stripes and wide cobalt-blue eyes. Size: 7" W x 16.25" H (17.8 cm x 41.3 cm).

Provenance: private Newport Beach, California, USA collection

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#141571

  • Condition: Small nicks to all faces, verso, and peripheries, chipping and fading to original pigmentation, with several stable fissures, and light adhesive residue around reverse periphery from previous mounting, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout.

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