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Máscara de Carnaval

American History Museum

Carnival Mask
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  • Carnival Mask
  • Carnival Mask
  • Carnival Mask

    Object Details

    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).

    Description (Spanish)

    Esta elaborada máscara, confeccionada alrededor de 1980, está pintada en rojo y negro, los colores de la ciudad de Ponce. Para la época del carnaval, los jóvenes del barrio acostumbran a disfrazarse de vejigantes con máscaras como ésta y salen a deambular por las calles asustando a los niños y concurrentes a la fiesta, dándoles palmadas con sus vejigas (vejigas de animales infladas como globos y puestas a secar).

    Location

    Currently not on view

    Credit Line

    Gift of Teodoro Vidal

    Date made

    ca 1980

    ID Number

    1997.0097.0016

    accession number

    1997.0097

    catalog number

    1997.0097.0016

    Object Name

    Carnival Mask

    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

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    Vidal

    Data Source

    National Museum of American History

    Subject

    Carnivals
    Costume

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-23ff-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

    Record ID

    nmah_600889

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