{"title":"Home Decor","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"vintage-guatemalan-mico-monkey-mask-hand-carved-wood-folk-art-dance-mask","title":"Vintage Guatemalan Mico Monkey Mask – Hand-Carved Wood Folk Art Dance Mask","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA hand-carved Guatemalan mico (monkey) mask with a deeply gouged black crown, a bold white face, and red-rimmed eyes and nostrils. The back shows the carver’s hand-chiseled tool marks, and a natural fiber hanger is attached for display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bit of history:\u003c\/strong\u003e Monkey masks like this appear in the Baile del Venado (Dance of the Deer), a traditional Guatemalan celebration featuring masked animal characters. The mico’s dark head and white muzzle and eye rings are thought to represent the spider monkey, native to the highlands around Lake Atitlán.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved and painted wood, natural fiber hanger. Dimensions 9\" x 6.5 x 3.5\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition with expected wear, small paint losses, and scuffs consistent with age. 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Hand-chiseled tool marks are visible inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bit of history:\u003c\/strong\u003e Masks like this were made for the Baile de la Conquista (Dance of the Conquest), a dance performed throughout Guatemala, usually on a town’s patron saint holiday. It reenacts the 1524 clash between the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado and the K’iche’ Maya leader Tecún Umán. The light skin, facial hair, and blue eyes mark this character as one of the Spaniards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved and painted wood, cord hanger. Approx. 8.5 x 6 x 5in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition with paint chips on the nose, chin, and moustache, and light scuffs consistent with age. 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Eye slits sit above the painted eyes, and the darkened, weathered interior shows its age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bit of history:\u003c\/strong\u003e Reptiles have a long tradition in the carved masks of Guerrero, Mexico, where Nahua carvers made carnival masks topped with lizards, iguanas, and crocodiles crawling over the face. The Albuquerque Museum holds mid-century examples from Iguala, Guerrero, including one with a green iguana facing down toward the mask’s nose, much like this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved and painted wood, cord hanger. Approx. 12 x 7 x 3.5 in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition with small paint losses on the nose and near one eye, light scuffs, and age wear inside. A handwritten number is on the back. 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The interior is darkened and smoothed with age, a sign of real use and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bit of history:\u003c\/strong\u003e Though Spanish speakers call it a “tigre,” this mask represents the jaguar, which was revered throughout ancient Mesoamerica. In the Mexican state of Guerrero and its neighbors, masked jaguar dancers still perform rituals to petition for rain before the spring planting season, a tradition many believe dates to before the Spanish conquest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved and painted wood, fiber hanger. Approx. 8 x 7.5 x 5 in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition with paint wear, losses, and scuffs consistent with age and use, especially around the snout, brow, and teeth. 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The weathered gray interior and worn paint show genuine age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bit of history:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mask carvers in Guerrero, Mexico, are famous for “stacking” creatures onto a single face, with lizards, snakes, fish, birds, and mermaids crawling over the features. The sirena (mermaid) is a favorite figure in Mexican folk art, where she’s often linked to water, rain, and abundance, and she turns up in dance masks, pottery, and the Lotería card game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved and painted wood, Approx. 10 x 8 x 4.5 in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition with paint losses on the noses, tongue, and chin, a small crack near the lower lip, and weathering consistent with age. 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Sunburst lashes ring the painted eyes, and rows of carved teeth line each side of the mouth. The wearer’s eyeholes sit between the painted eyes, and the back shows the carver’s hand-gouged tool marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bit of history:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jaguars are among the animal characters in Guatemala’s Baile del Venado (Dance of the Deer), a masked dance held in many highland towns. Depending on the village, the dancers may include a tigre (jaguar), a tigrillo (little jaguar), lions, monkeys, dogs, and a scarlet macaw, all performing to marimba music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved and painted wood, natural fiber hanger. Approx. 9.5 x 6.5 x 3.5 in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition with paint chips and losses, especially on the snout and cheeks, and light wear consistent with age. 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Square eyeholes sit just under the brow, and the weathered, darkened interior shows its age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bit of history:\u003c\/strong\u003e The torito is the star of Guatemala’s Baile del Torito (Dance of the Bull), a masked dance performed by Maya communities in the highlands, where costumed cowboys try to tame the bull. Museum collections hold K’iche’ Maya torito masks with the same black face, long horns, and rectangular eyehole carved above the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved and painted wood, pegged wooden horns, cord hanger. Approx. 7 x 6 x 5 in, including horns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition with paint wear and scuffs, light chipping on the horn tips, and age wear inside. 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