DepartmentLatin America

Dance of the Chonguiada Mask

NameMask

Maker Camac or Camarena Workshop

CultureQuechua

Date2004

Place madeHuancayo, Junín, Peru, South America

MediumWire screen, human hair, paint, fiber (thread)

Dimensions7 1/2 × 11 9/16 × 4 1/4 in. (19.05 × 29.3751 × 10.795 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, International Folk Art Foundation Collection, FA.2005.11.1

Object numberFA.2005.11.1

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionThe painting and decoration on the mask represents a Spanish man from the Colonial era, hence, pink skin, blue eyes, beauty mark and brown hair. The wire screen face frame makes the mask very light. Human hair eyebrows, sideburns and muttonchop mustache.