Máscara de Carnaval
- Description
- This elaborate mask, made around 1980, is painted in red and black, the colors of the city of Ponce. Masks like this are typically worn by young men from the neighborhood, who don the costume of a vejigante, a character who roams the streets during Carnival, playfully scaring children and other revelers, and swatting them with vejigas (balloon-like, inflated animal bladders).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Carnival Mask
- Date made
- ca 1980
- Physical Description
- papier mache; paint (overall material)
- handmade (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- papier mache (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 72.5 cm x 67.2 cm x 40.3 cm; 28 9/16 in x 26 7/16 in x 15 7/8 in
- place made
- Puerto Rico
- ID Number
- 1997.0097.0016
- accession number
- 1997.0097
- catalog number
- 1997.0097.0016
- subject
- Carnivals
- Cultures & Communities
- Puerto Rico
- Costume
- Vidal
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- Home and Community Life: Ethnic
- Vidal
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Title
- Carnival Mask
- Credit Line
- Gift of Teodoro Vidal
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