Moro" dance mask with black beard. The lower jaw is removabl - Lot 221

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Moro" dance mask with black beard. The lower jaw is removabl - Lot 221
Moro" dance mask with black beard. The lower jaw is removable. Carved wood, painted white, black, red and blue, and covered with a transparent varnish. H. 23 cm x L. 19 cm Mexico, after 1950. A label indicates "Region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec". Condition: cracks, chipped polychromy. Provenance: Henri André Jean FAVRE Collection (1937-2025) (probably acquired before 1970) Sociologist, researcher and teacher, Henri Favre focused his academic work on the Indian peasant insurrections that punctuated the colonial and republican history of Latin America. He began his research at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico, then boarded at the Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, before joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1966. For almost twenty years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, he led a post-graduate seminar on the ethnosociology of peasant Indians in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Henri Favre was Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. He is the author of numerous works on the Incas, the Mayas, Peru, Mexico, the indigenous movement in Latin America...
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