Wooden face mask; tiger, with leather ears and leather tongue; boar tusks and agave spine teeth; whiskered; yellow; black and red. Dia. 27.0cm; H. 18.0cm
Donor:
George M. Foster, Helen Cowles LeCron, James Defrees LeCron, Mary LeCron Foster, and Mrs. Eugene E. Jurs
Collection place:
Guerrero, Mexico, North America
Collector:
George M. Foster
Collection date:
1944
Materials:
Leather and Wood (plant material)
Taxon:
Agave deserti
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1963
Context of use:
Worn with tiger costume for the "danza de tigres". For similar mask see 3-15748.
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
diameter 27 centimeters and height 18 centimeters
Comment:
H-11-10
Loans:
S1964-1965 #68: International House (UC Berkeley) (March 23, 1965–April 13, 1965), S1966-1967 #3: Education (UC Berkeley) (August 12, 1966–September 2, 1966), S1975-1976 #71: Museum of Craft and Folk Art (San Francisco) (April 7, 1976–April 12, 1976), S2009-2010 #11b: SFO Museum (dates unknown), and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)