Lent Carnival Dance Mask used in "The Christians and the Moors"
Unidentified Maya maker
collected in 1940
Wood, plaster, paint, glass
Overall: 9 × 7 in. (22.9 × 17.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Charles H. Tozier, Class of 1933P
40.26.7352
Geography
Place Made: Guatemala, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Americas
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inside bears inscription "MC 66"
Provenance
Collected by Charles Herman Tozier (1875-1947); given to present collection, 1940.
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