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Title
Mask
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English: Throughout Mesoamerica, the wearing of masks was central to the performance of religious rituals and reenactments of myths and history. The face is the center of identity, and by changing one's face, a person can transcend the bounds of self, social expectations, and even earthly limitations. In this transformed state, the human becomes the god, supernatural being or mythic hero portrayed. Masks of skeletal heads, whether human or animal, are relatively common, for death played a central role in Mexica religion. Death was one of the twenty daysigns of the Mexican calendar, indicating its essential place in the natural cycle of the cosmos. Death also was directly connected to the concept of regeneration and resurrection, which was a basic principle in Aztec religious philosophy. A key Mexica myth recounts the journey of Ehecatl, a wind god who was an aspect of Quetzalcóatl ("Feathered Serpent"), a powerful Mesoamerican deity. Ehecatl travels to Mictlán, the land of the dead, where he retrieves the bones of long-dead ancestors. He grinds their bones and mixes the powder with his blood, offered in sacrifice. With this potent mixture, the god formed the new race of humans who, according to Mexica cosmology, inhabit the present fifth age of Creation. Thus, death and rebirth are intimately connected in Aztec thought and religious practice. The mask represents the concept of life generated from death with visages animated by lively eyes and painted skin. The mask was probably worn during rituals, covering the performer's face or attached to an elaborate, full-head mask, and transforms the person into a new being that symbolizes the pan-Mesoamerican belief in life springing from death as a natural, and inevitable, process of the mystical universe.
Date between 1400 and 1521
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1521-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
(Late Postclassic)
Medium wood, white ground with traces of black and red paint
Dimensions height: 17.2 cm (6.7 in); width: 14 cm (5.5 in); depth: 7.2 cm (2.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,17.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,14U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,7.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
2009.20.1
Place of creation Central Mexico
Object history
  • Throckmorton Fine Arts, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase
  • 2009: given to Walters Art Museum
Credit line Gift of John Bourne, 2009
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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