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<\/a><\/p>\nThis mask has the long hair that is favored by Sinaloa Pascola dancers. It has wonderful patina.<\/p>\n
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This mask has an unusual forehead cross. One commonly finds such elaborate crosses on Pablo’s masks<\/p>\n There are carved notches along the bottom edge of the openings for vision. His more recent masks had painted lower lashes rather than ones that were carved.<\/p>\n The carved rim design extends around the upper part of the mask, but goes no lower than the eyes.<\/p>\n This mask is 8 inches tall, 5\u00bc inches wide, and 3 inches deep.<\/p>\n The back is darkly stained from use, more so than you would think from this photo.<\/p>\n The next mask was carved and danced by Pablo in 1988, then collected by Tom Kolaz\u00a0 later that year. I purchased it from Tom Kolaz in 1998.<\/p>\n This mask, which depicts a goat, has an interesting and unusual profile.<\/p>\n Here is another of those unusual forehead crosses.<\/p>\n It is really apparent in these photos that Pablo secures the hair bundles in place with wooden pegs (PLUS string).<\/p>\n This mask is 7\u00bc inches tall, 5 5\/8 inches wide, and 3\u00bd inches deep.<\/p>\n This mask was not heavily danced.<\/p>\n I bought the third Goat Pascola mask from Joe Tuzz, on EBay, in August, 2016. On the back it is also marked February, 1989, as if it was collected then.<\/p>\n This mask is small, as if a child’s mask. The round vision openings are unusual for Pablo.<\/p>\n The simplicity of design of this mask is common for Pablo’s later masks. Barney Burns and Mahina Drees collected many masks like this in a variety of colors and color combinations, but all shaped like this one.<\/p>\n The cross is very unadorned on this mask. The usual eyelashes are painted on the lower edges of these eyes, but not carved.<\/p>\n This mask is 7 inches tall, 5 inches wide, and 2\u00bd inches deep.<\/p>\n There is mild staining from use.<\/p>\n The last of these masks has a human face, and most of Pablo’s human faced masks look just like this one.<\/p>\n I bought this mask from Dinah Gaston in June of 2000. It is dated January 15, 1994 on the back, when it was purchased in El Fuerte, Sinaloa.<\/p>\n Pablo’s usual forehead cross is flanked by a scorpion and a lizard.<\/p>\n This mask originally had many pegged hair bundles, but some have been lost.<\/p>\n This mask is 8\u00bd inches tall, 6 inches wide, and 3\u00bc inches deep.<\/p>\n The back is moderately stained from use.<\/p>\n Today all the masks are from my collection. Next week we will examine a few more of Pablo’s masks from the collection of Barney Burns and Mahina Drees.<\/p>\n Bryan Stevens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I want to introduce you to the masks of Pablo Pacheco of Rincon Aliso, Sinaloa. Tom Kolaz obtained this mask from a runner in Sinaloa in 2009, and sold it to me in 2010. By that time Pablo was … Read More <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n