Deer Head Mask

AD 600-900 (Late Classic)

10.2 cm 10.2 cm 10.4 cm

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Fanciful headdresses were an essential component of performance costumes because they were crucial to the dancers' perceived transformation into the personage or spirit being in whose guise they performed. In Veracruz, figurines depicting warriors and a wide variety of perform...

Sculpture

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80157
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sculpture
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stage
normalized
provenance
provenance
Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1960, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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CC0
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language
en
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pageCount
3
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source
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style
Remojades or Nopiloa
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