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品名（中）	雨神面具
品名（英）	Rain God Mask
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.1062
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1200 - 公元 1400
创作地区	墨西哥（Mexico）
分类	石雕（Stone-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 5 1/2 x 宽 6 x 深 3 英寸 (14 x 15.2 x 7.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	古墨西哥的许多人用各种材料制作了不同类型的面具。有些描绘了理想化的人脸，有些描绘了动物或超自然的存在。口罩的作用并不总是很清楚。只有少数是在考古背景下发现的，很难确定其生活用途。有眼睛和嘴巴孔的人脸大小的例子可能是在游行或仪式场合佩戴的。没有这种开口的面具可能被放置在死者身上；或者它们可能被绑在雕像或神束上，就像这个面具前额两侧的洞所暗示的那样。还有一些小到可以作为吊坠或头饰的一部分佩戴。这个面具由浅绿色的蛇形雕刻而成，描绘了雨神特拉洛克，他有着典型的环状眼睛、突出的牙齿和两边卷曲的上唇小胡子。他还在鼻中隔上戴了一个鼻棒。
介绍（英）	Many peoples in ancient Mexico made masks of different types and in a variety of materials. Some depict idealized human faces, others animals or supernatural beings. How the masks functioned is not always clear. Only a few have been discovered in archaeological contexts and life-uses are hard to make out. Face-size examples with holes for eyes and mouth were presumably worn in processions or on ceremonial occasions. Masks with no such openings may have been laid upon the dead; or they might have been tied to statuary or deity bundles, as the holes on the sides of the forehead of this mask suggest. Still others are small enough to be worn as pendants or as part of headdresses. This mask, carved from a light green serpentine, depicts the rain god Tlaloc with the characteristic ringed eyes, prominent teeth, and a mouth with an upper lip-moustache that curls on each side. He also wears a nose bar in the nasal septum.