The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Mask

Mask

1–550 CE
Overall: 19 x 23.2 x 9.8 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/8 x 3 7/8 in.)

Description

Many Teotihuacán masks were once tied to something via holes on the back--perhaps a body-shaped form dressed in garments, ornaments, and a headdress that identified the figure. The stone masks’ eyes and mouths once held inlays representing irises, pupils, and teeth.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 362 archive.org
    Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "Veneration of the Dead: Religious Ritual on a Pre-Columbian Mirror-Back." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 9 (1990): 326-51. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 346-47 www.jstor.org
  • Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946).
    Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 9, 1945 - January 6, 1946. "Art of the Americas." repr. in catalogue, black and white, p. 22.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.1094