Carved wooden mask. Mask has a long, stretched, smiling face, showing the upper teeth. He has a protruding nose and a long chin, with incised lines for hair.

• Iconographic Meaning

  Mask represents Jose Socrates (full name José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa), Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005-2011. Socrates was replaced as prime minister by Pedro Passos Coelho (see mask 2956/239) in 2011. After Socrates lost the election he was ousted as Secretary General of the Portuguese Socialist party.

• 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.

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• Type of Item mask
• Culture Portuguese
• Material wood
• Measurements height 37.7 cm, width 19.7 cm, depth 16.5 cm (overall)

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• 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

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• Made in Lazarim
• Collected in Portugal

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

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• Condition good
• Accession Number 2956/0240