Mask

MOA: University of British Columbia

2956/235

Carved wooden mask with long stretched face and ears, protruding lower lip and jowls. Incised lines for hair and mustache. There's a hole on each side and two on top. Twine attached at back.

  • Iconographic Meaning

    Mask represents Luis Felipe Vieira, president of FC Sport Lisboa e Benefica (Portuguese football club), a rival of the chairman of FC Porto (also, see mask 2956/236).

  • History Of Use

    Carnival mask. The mask makers of Lazarim have their own unique individual styles and distinctive repertoire of character types; José António da Silva Costa specializes in caricatures of public personalities.


  • Type of Item mask
  • Culture Portuguese
  • Material wood
  • Measurements height 36.0 cm, width 22.5 cm, depth 17.0 cm (overall)

  • Creator Jose Antonio da Silva Costa
  • Field Collector Anthony A. Shelton
  • Previous Owner Anthony A. Shelton
  • Received from Museum of Anthropology Exhibitions Budget, Anthony A. Shelton

  • Made in Lazarim
  • Collected in Portugal

  • Creation Date during 2011
  • Collection Date between 2011 and 2012
  • Ownership Date before September 17, 2012
  • Acquisition Date on September 17, 2012

  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 2956/0235