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Dance Mask

Medium/TechniqueWood with paint and silver foil
DimensionsOverall: 30.5 × 25.4 × 12.7 cm (12 × 10 × 5 in.)
Credit LineGift of James Oles
Accession number2022.129
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMasks
ProvenanceBy 2015, sold at the Lagunilla flea market, Mexico City to James Oles, Wayland, MA; 2021, gift of James Oles to the MFA. (Accession date: April 20, 2022)
Face mask
about 1930–40
Face mask
about 1930–40
Face mask
Late 19th to early 20th century
about 1930–40
Head
Late 19th to early 20th century
Spirit mask
Unknown Native American
about 1985
early 20th–mid 20th century
Wooden mask
1400–1521 AD