{ "instructions": [ { "date": [ { "earliest": 1999, "value": "1999-08-27", "latest": 1999, "primary": true } ], "note": "IROONEY", "instruction": "red", "type": "HANDLING STATUS" } ], "note": [ { "type": "catalogue note", "value": "Display - Middle - Moderate handling in controlled session\nOLD DESCRIPTION: Bought from a Museum Shop for the Education Center." } ], "loan": { "value": "N" }, "subject": [ { "summary": { "title": "Masks" }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-subject-44", "id": "subject-44", "uuid": "204f75d5-7cdb-3a38-ab51-5f738775771f" }, "@entity": "reference" } ], "description": [ { "type": "catalogue description", "value": "Painted wooden face mask with snakes and a cat surrounding the face.", "primary": true }, { "historical": true, "type": "description", "value": "Painted wooden face mask with snakes and a cat surrounding the face. Bought from a Museum Shop for the Education Center.\n\n{WEBSITES: www.vivalaluchalibre.net\/home.htm (good pics of Lucha Libre and interesting content \u2013 WARNING \u2013 some of the language is not appropriate for museum visitors! \u2013 Use as a resource only!)}\n\n{RELATEDOBJS: Mexican masks Discovery box\nKathputli snake charmer and his snake\nOther Mexican masks in the HOB \nAll the masks in the centenary gallery\nOther Mexican objects. }" }, { "type": "manufacture basic (online)", "value": "This mask is carved from wood, painted and then varnished to give it a glossy finish. In Mexico, traditionally, women make the costumes for masked dances and the men make the masks. The type of costume a mask has depends on the story it comes with and the type of character it represents.\n\nMask making is a very old tradition in Mexico. Well before the Spanish came to colonise Mexico in the 1500s, the Native Indian peoples were already making and using masks within their culture. When the Spanish took control of the country, they brought the Catholic religion with them, too. Mask making continued amongst the Indian groups, but ideas from Catholic religion were introduced and then integrated to include characters and ideas from Spanish history and Catholicism." }, { "type": "manufacture more (online)", "value": "\"Little is known about the masks from the colonial era, but some apparently came out of the workshops of santeros, or Christian saint makers, who applied their wood-carving and painting skills to produce very sophisticated sculpted faces with glossy finishes portraying realistic human skin tones. Other masks were probably made by craftsmen living within the mestizo\/Indian regions, who sold or rented a variety of costumes to the performers. In some cases, the dancers may have created their own masks from crudely carved wood or other materials at hand\u2026Although most Mexican masks of the twentieth century have been made of carved and painted wood, other materials have been used, such as leather, cloth, cardboard, wax, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9, rubber tire and metal cans.\" \n\nMaudlin, B, Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life \u2013 Masks of Mexico pg 3 & 4." }, { "historical": true, "type": "description", "value": "Painted wooden face mask with snakes and a cat surrounding the face. Bought from a Museum Shop for the Education Center.\n\nBOOKS\/NOTES: Mauldin, Barbara, Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life \u2013 Masks of Mexico, pg 109. \nIn the Horniman library so needs catalogue number entering.\n\n\n{WEBSITES: www.vivalaluchalibre.net\/home.htm (good pics of Lucha Libre and interesting content \u2013 WARNING \u2013 some of the language is not appropriate for museum visitors! \u2013 Use as a resource only!)}\n\n{RELATEDOBJS: Mexican masks Discovery box\nKathputli snake charmer and his snake\nOther Mexican masks in the HOB \nAll the masks in the centenary gallery\nOther Mexican objects. }" }, { "historical": true, "type": "description", "value": "Painted wooden face mask with snakes and a cat surrounding the face. Bought from a Museum Shop for the Education Center.\n\nBOOKS\/NOTES: Mauldin, Barbara, Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life \u2013 Masks of Mexico, pg 109. \nIn the Horniman library so needs catalogue number entering.\n\n\n{WEBSITES\/NOTES: \nhttp:\/\/www.statemuseum.arizona.edu\/exhibits\/santosdiablos\/info.shtml - (Museum exhibition info online)\nhttp:\/\/www.mexicanmasks.us\/ (general interest site about Mexican Masks by an enthusiast)\nwww.vivalaluchalibre.net\/home.htm (good pics of Lucha Libre and interesting content \u2013 WARNING \u2013 some of the language is not appropriate for museum visitors! \u2013 Use as a resource only!)\n\n\n{RELATEDOBJS: Mexican masks Discovery box\nKathputli snake charmer and his snake\nOther Mexican masks in the HOB \nAll the masks in the centenary gallery\nOther Mexican objects. }" }, { "type": "description", "value": "Painted wooden face mask with snakes and a cat surrounding the face. Bought from a Museum Shop for the Education Center.\n\nBOOKS\/NOTES: Mauldin, Barbara, Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life \u2013 Masks of Mexico, pg 109. \nIn the Horniman library so needs catalogue number entering.\n\n\n{WEBSITES\/NOTES: \nhttp:\/\/www.statemuseum.arizona.edu\/exhibits\/santosdiablos\/info.shtml - (Museum exhibition info online)\nhttp:\/\/www.mexicanmasks.us\/ (general interest site about Mexican Masks by an enthusiast)\nwww.vivalaluchalibre.net\/home.htm (good pics of Lucha Libre and interesting content \u2013 WARNING \u2013 some of the language is not appropriate for museum visitors! \u2013 Use as a resource only!)\n\n{RELATEDOBJS: Mexican masks Discovery box\nKathputli snake charmer and his snake\nOther Mexican masks in the HOB \nAll the masks in the centenary gallery\nOther Mexican objects. }" }, { "type": "more (online)", "value": "Mascara is Spanish for mask. In Mexico the national language is Spanish although other native languages are spoken there." }, { "historical": true, "type": "use", "value": "For Mexican dance dramas held during religious festivals and at carnival time." }, { "historical": true, "type": "use", "value": "How is it used? \nYou would probably see a mask like this being used in a Mexican dance drama held at religious festivals or during carnival time. Masks dances and masquerade are an important part of many different cultural and religious festivals held across the whole of Mexico, performed throughout the year. The festival held just before Lent is one of the most popular. While other festivals, such as Holy (Easter) week, and Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), the Mexican equivalent of All Souls day celebrated in early November, are also important. \n \nParticipants in Mexico's mask dances fulfill religious vows through their involvement. The dances also educate and inform the community about social values and other concerns about life. \n \nWho is it used by and why them? \nA mask like this would generally be worn by a young man at a carnival or religious festival in Mexico. In Mexico, men tend to wear and dance in the masks, while women make elaborate costumes for them. \n \nMany different cultural groups in Mexico use masks such as these, as a way to remember and act out their histories and beliefs. Dancers can become part of elaborately scripted dance dramas involving music, song, fire and feasting, which can last for several days. \n \nThis mask has probably been made to look like a European. It has blue eyes and pink skin. Some masks are painted with very red faces. This is because when the Europeans came to Mexico, their skin wasn't used to the hot sun, and it burnt. \nIn pre-Hispanic times (the time before the Spanish came to Mexico), the indigenous Indian peoples were already using masks as part of their cultural rituals and traditions." }, { "historical": true, "type": "use", "value": "Catholic missionaries came to Mexico after the Spanish conquest of the country in 1521. These priests often told stories about the Catholic saints. They also told stories of Spanish history concerning battles that happened in Spain between the Spanish Catholics and the Moors from North Africa. In these battles, the Moors lost their power to the Spanish armies. Masks were used to act these stories out. The Spanish wanted the Mexican Indian communities to know this story so that they would feel that the Spanish army was powerful. Just as they had fought the Moors and driven them out of Spain, the Spanish expected to control the different Indian groups in Mexico. Because of this, dance masks showing the faces of the Moors were sometimes changed and replaced with faces that looked more like the local Mexican Indians." }, { "attribution": { "attributor": "Patel, India" }, "type": "description", "value": "Painted wooden face mask with snakes and a cat surrounding the face." }, { "type": "use", "value": "For Mexican dance dramas held during religious festivals and at carnival time. \nHow is it used? \nYou would probably see a mask like this being used in a Mexican dance drama held at religious festivals or during carnival time. Masks dances and masquerade are an important part of many different cultural and religious festivals held across the whole of Mexico, performed throughout the year. The festival held just before Lent is one of the most popular. While other festivals, such as Holy (Easter) week, and Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), the Mexican equivalent of All Souls day celebrated in early November, are also important. \nParticipants in Mexico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mask dances fulfill religious vows through their involvement. The dances also educate and inform the community about social values and other concerns about life. \nWho is it used by and why them? \nA mask like this would generally be worn by a young man at a carnival or religious festival in Mexico. In Mexico, men tend to wear and dance in the masks, while women make elaborate costumes for them. \nMany different cultural groups in Mexico use masks such as these, as a way to remember and act out their histories and beliefs. Dancers can become part of elaborately scripted dance dramas involving music, song, fire and feasting, which can last for several days. \nThis mask has probably been made to look like a European. It has blue eyes and pink skin. Some masks are painted with very red faces. This is because when the Europeans came to Mexico, their skin wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t used to the hot sun, and it burnt. \nIn pre-Hispanic times (the time before the Spanish came to Mexico), the indigenous Indian peoples were already using masks as part of their cultural rituals and traditions. \nCatholic missionaries came to Mexico after the Spanish conquest of the country in 1521. These priests often told stories about the Catholic saints. They also told stories of Spanish history concerning battles that happened in Spain between the Spanish Catholics and the Moors from North Africa. In these battles, the Moors lost their power to the Spanish armies. Masks were used to act these stories out. The Spanish wanted the Mexican Indian communities to know this story so that they would feel that the Spanish army was powerful. 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