Teotihuacan
Central Mexico
AD 300 to 700
Stone
Height 5 inches, Width 5 3/4 inches
Provenance: Constance McCormick Fearing, Santa Barbara, California, acquired in the 1950s, predating the 1972 UNESCO Convention; James Jeter, Santa Barbara, California
The mask is carved from a gray green stone with a broad, trapezoidal face shape that tapers slightly toward the chin. A horizontal ridge defines the brow above two elongated, oval shaped eye openings, a straight ridged nose, and a mouth rendered as two horizontal carved bands suggesting slightly parted lips. A single drilled hole is visible near the upper right side of the mask, likely used to attach the piece to a separate armature or bundle.
The stone surface is coarse and weathered, consistent with long term burial or exposure, and the reverse of the mask is left plain. Masks of this type are understood by current scholarship to have been affixed to perishable figures or ritual bundles rather than worn by a living person. The piece was acquired in the 1950s by Constance McCormick Fearing of Santa Barbara, predating the 1972 UNESCO Convention, and later passed to fellow Santa Barbara collector James Jeter.
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Teotihuacan
Central Mexico
AD 300 to 700
Stone
Height 5 inches, Width 5 3/4 inches
Provenance: Constance McCormick Fearing, Santa Barbara, California, acquired in the 1950s, predating the 1972 UNESCO Convention; James Jeter, Santa Barbara, California
The mask is carved from a gray green stone with a broad, trapezoidal face shape that tapers slightly toward the chin. A horizontal ridge defines the brow above two elongated, oval shaped eye openings, a straight ridged nose, and a mouth rendered as two horizontal carved bands suggesting slightly parted lips. A single drilled hole is visible near the upper right side of the mask, likely used to attach the piece to a separate armature or bundle.
The stone surface is coarse and weathered, consistent with long term burial or exposure, and the reverse of the mask is left plain. Masks of this type are understood by current scholarship to have been affixed to perishable figures or ritual bundles rather than worn by a living person. The piece was acquired in the 1950s by Constance McCormick Fearing of Santa Barbara, predating the 1972 UNESCO Convention, and later passed to fellow Santa Barbara collector James Jeter.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
