Supay Mascara

'Supay Mascara'- Bolivian mask for the devil's wife. Made from painted china with mirror teeth, large eyelashes and wool eyebrows.

Mask represents 'La Diablada' and 'China Supay Mascara' the devil and his wife. Mask dance is performed by tin miners during the festival of the Virgin of Socavon whose shrine is near the entrance to the Oruro mines. The dance enacts the conquest of the devil by the Archangel Gabriel and the devils submission to the virgin. The open air festival at which the dance is performed involved months of preparation and there may be a hundred men wearing devil masks.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
HC.1999.1546
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 148 x 273 x 149 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
ceramic; pigment; metal; textile
CATEGORY
Education Handling Collection: Anthropology
LOCATION
In storage
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