20th C. Guatemala Wood Festival Mask - Simian

Latin America, Guatemala, ca. mid 20th century CE. A stunning hand-carved and beautifully-painted wooden mask with engrossing simian features including a wide and flat nose, broad brow, disc-shaped ea

**Originally Listed At $100** Central America, Guatemala, mid to late 20th century CE. Guatemala has a long tradition of colorful festivals where dancers, wearing masks, tell stories about good and ev

Central America, Guatemala, 20th century CE. A huge wooden mask, painted realistically, showing a pale-complexioned person with blue eyes and straight brown hair. Slits under the eyes provide vision f

Central America, Guatemala, ca. mid 20th century CE. Wow! A unique and colorful handmade wooden festival mask of incredible form: an armadillo whose broad back is in the form of a bearded human face.

Latin America, Guatemala, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden mask of a deer's head with real antlers. The antlers are covered in brown earthen material, most of which remains, while the h

New World, Guatemala, ca. mid 20th century CE. A fantastical, striking festival mask in the form of a bat, with the head of the animal forming the lower part of the mask; the ears project upward and a

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA ** Central America, Guatemala, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A well-executed and relatively old Guatem

Donated By: Artemis Gallery Central America, probably Guatemala (for larger), and Mexico, Yaqui people, (for smaller), ca. 20th century CE. A huge-eyed, orange wood festival mask of zoomorphic form, w

Central America, Guatemala & Mexico, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A collection of 3 handmade wood festival masks- 2 decorated with facial hair made from horsehair and vegetal fibers. The vibrant

**Originally Listed At $300** Central America, Guatemala, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A wonderful set of 3 hand-carved wooden festival masks depicting mustachioed men, perhaps representing

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA **Guatemala, Nahuala, early 20th century. Rare stuffed black cloth figure with carved black wood festival

New World, Guatemala, ca. mid 20th century CE. A lovely festival mask, hand-carved from a single piece of hard wood, depicting an amusing reptile atop an expressive anthropomorphic visage. The lizard

**First Time At Auction** Central America, Mexico or Guatemala, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A hand carved and beautifully painted wooden monkey mask with naturalistic simian features. In Guatem

Mexico, ca. early 20th century CE. A large hand carved and hand painted Mexican festival mask depicting a dramatic visage comprised of thick brows, huge saucer shaped eyes with eye slits above, a prom

Latin America, Mexico, ca. 20th century CE. A lovely hand-carved wooden carnival or festival mask depicting an older male with a prominent nose, full lips, a black-painted moustache, and an arching br

**Originally Listed At $500** Mexico, early 20th century. Rare carved wooden festival dance mask painted black with long sinewy snake emerging where nose should be. Snake is painted a vibrant red, gre

Latin America, Mexico, probably Michoacan State, ca. early 20th century CE. An early and finely detailed carved wood mask from the Guerrero region, representing a Moor or possibly El Viejo (old man) g

South America, Argentina, Salta Province, Campo Duran, ca. 20th century CE. A charming bird mask, hand carved from a single piece of wood and hand painted in warm umber brown with white and black stri

**First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Nepal, Himalayan region, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A striking festival mask, hand-carved from hard wood with bulging eyes, a full nose, tall ears,

**First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Nepal, ca. early 20th century CE. Carved from a single piece of wood and painted in a vibrant red, black, silver, white, and yellow ochre color scheme, a vibran

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA ** South America, Argentina, ca. 20th century CE. A festive bird mask, hand carved from a single piece of

Latin America, Mexico, Sonora, Yaqui people, ca. 20th century CE. A large and finely-detailed festival mask, hand-carved from a single piece of lightweight wood, with dramatic facial features and exce

**First Time At Auction** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Java or Bali, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden festival mask depicting a character for the Topeng dance of Indonesia. Th

**First Time At Auction** Latin America, Mexico, ca. early to mid-20th century. A wonderful carved wood festival mask depicting a male visage hand-painted in brilliant hues, with hot pink skin and gli