carnival mask

Moulded leather face mask, painted, with fur/wool eyebrows and moustache and a nose and earrings.

The masks are worn during annual Carnival (Shrove Tuesday) the people of Huejotzingo re-enact the defeat of the French troops in the nineteenth century. During Carnival (every year on Shrove Tuesday), the people of Huejotzingo re-enact the defeat of the French troops in the nineteenth century. They wear colourful costumes and leather masks, to represent arrogant French soldiers or teh warlike Mexican soldiers. It is a time for fun, when dancers can mock their past oppressors and ridicule landowners and city dwellers.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
HC.1999.1568
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 195 x 144 x 113 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
leather; pigment; wool/fur; metal
CATEGORY
Education Handling Collection: Anthropology
LOCATION
Hands on Base > Right Hand Archive > bay 4
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