"Cara Grande" (big head) mask representing Karajá enemies
Object Details
- Collection History
- NMAI purchase from the artist, 2000.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 2000
- Catalog Number
- 25/7247
- Barcode
- 257247.000
- Culture/People
- Tapirapé (Tapirape)
- Artist/Maker
- Xario Domingos Tapirapé, Tapirapé (Tapirape)
- Seller
- Xario Domingos Tapirapé, Tapirapé (Tapirape)
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
- Indigenous Term
- tãwa ãxygetãra
- Object Name
- "Cara Grande" (big head) mask representing Karajá enemies
- Media/Materials
- Wood, macaw feather/feathers, palm frond/fronds, beeswax, shell/shells, cotton twine/string, pig/boar tooth/teeth/tusk, mother-of-pearl
- Techniques
- Carved, wrapped, glued
- Dimensions
- 74 x 71 x 5 cm
- Place
- Tapi'itawa, Terra Indígena Urubu Branco, Santa Terezinha Municipality; Northeast Mesoregion, North Araguaia Microregion; Mato Grosso State, Central-West Region; Brazil
- See related items
- Tapirapé (Tapirape)
- Masks and Masking
- Record ID
- NMAI_273135
