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Klein, \"Masking Empire: The Material Effects of Masks in Aztec Mexico\", <i>Art History </i>9, no. 2 (June 1986): p. 135-67.","citation":"Cecelia F. Klein, \"Masking Empire: The Material Effects of Masks in Aztec Mexico\", <i>Art History </i>9, no. 2 (June 1986): p. 135-67., fig. 6 (illus.)","date":1986,"id":2781,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/884745984"},{"boilertext":"Felipe Solís, <EM>The Aztec Empire: Catalogue of the Exhibition</EM> (New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004).","citation":"Felipe Solís, <EM>The Aztec Empire: Catalogue of the Exhibition</EM> (New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004)., cat. no. 138 (illus.)","date":2004,"id":2930,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/57144932"},{"boilertext":"Felipe Solís, <EM>The Aztec Empire</EM> (New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004).","citation":"Felipe Solís, <EM>The Aztec Empire</EM> (New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004)., fig. 21 (illus.)","date":2004,"id":2956,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/57120073"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions 1970\", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 30, no. 1 (1971): p. 22-30.","citation":"\"Acquisitions 1970\", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 30, no. 1 (1971): p. 22-30., p. 30 (illus.)","date":1971,"id":3440,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774539"},{"boilertext":"Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. 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Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]. 1970, gift of Mrs. Gerard B. Lambert to the Princeton University Art Museum\n</p>\n<p>\n\tNotes:\n\t<br />\n\t[1] According to a Jax invoice in the curatorial file.\n</p>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"This wooden mask presents a human face in classic Mexica style, with lidded almond-shaped eyes and parted lips. Sixteenth-century Spanish colonial accounts record the Mexica use of gold masks, yet this is the only known example with traces of gold leaf still present. Mexica masks were gifted to Spaniards as “payment” for leaving Mexica territory, and, before the arrival of the Spanish, similar practices may have impelled other foreigners to leave—which could explain the discovery of this mask in Oaxaca, far from the Mexica capital. The Mexica produced surrogate images of high-ranking individuals to accompany their cremated remains; this mask’s lack of eyeholes suggests that it was designed to adorn a sculptural representation of a deity or a sculpted model of a deceased person.\n","remarks":"AAA3_20-T6-3_CLA_FA.pdf  - Day 1 installation"}],"datebegin":1350,"sortnumber":"1970  111y","published_date":"2026-03-05 09:06:50.135259","objectid":31420,"dimensions":"20.2 × 20.5 × 11.5 cm (7 15/16 × 8 1/16 × 4 1/2 in.)","on_view":true}