Mask
Item number 2792/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Dance mask worn with dance costume (2792/2 a-b). The carved wood male face has life-like features that include glass brown eyes, long upper eyelashes of blonde hair, and painted flesh tone skin, gold teeth, curly gold hair and sideburns, mustache, eyebrows and lower eyelashes. There is a slit opening at the mouth and several holes have been drilled through the surface; the two nostrils, two at the bridge of the nose, one at the top of each ear and one at the top of the head.
History Of Use
Mask used in the Dance of the Conquest, in Guatemala. In the Dance, King K'iche learns from Motecuhzoma that his empire is about to be destroyed by foreigners wielding magical weapons. His sons recommend resistance and go to Quetzaltenango to warn Tecum. King K'iche tells Tecum and the other chiefs that he has dreamed Motecuhzoma has been murdered and the same fate awaits him. Tecum promises to defeat the enemy. Ambassadors meet but Tecum rejects the Spaniards demand that his Indigenous followers be baptized. Next, Tecum narrates a dream where, in battle, he turns into an eagle and attacked the Spanish three times until he fell and his heart was split in two; he saw a dove leading the triumphant Spanish army. The real battles begins and Tecum is killed by Alvarado. Tecum's successor, Zunum, stops the battle and has Tecum buried in the mountain, while King K'iche declares he has had a dream in which the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, has convinced him to be baptized.
Item History
- Made in Guatemala before 1980
- Collected by Anthony A. Shelton
- Owned by Baker's Dozen Antiques before March 1, 2010
- Received from Baker's Dozen Antiques (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Acquisitions Budget (Funding source) on March 1, 2010
What
- Name
- Mask
- Identification Number
- 2792/1
- Type of Item
- mask
- Material
- wood, paint, cotton fibre, glass, hair ? and adhesive
- Overall
- height 19.0 cm, width 16.0 cm, depth 11.0 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Guatemala
Who
- Culture
- Guatemalan
- Field Collector
- Anthony A. Shelton
- Previous Owner
- Baker's Dozen Antiques
- Received from
- Baker's Dozen Antiques (Seller) and Museum of Anthropology Acquisitions Budget (Funding source)
When
- Creation Date
- before 1980
- Ownership Date
- before March 1, 2010
- Acquisition Date
- on March 1, 2010
Other
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2792/0001
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