Admission is Free | Open Wed–Sun

Admission is Free | Open Wed–Sun

black wooden mask with red painted details and holes for eyes and ears
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Lunch & Learn: The Dime in the Mask

June 24, 2025 | 12:30PM - 1:00PM

Join the Fowler’s Lilly Endowment Curator of Art and Religion Patrick A. Polk for a discussion of a colorful monkey mask crafted for a traditional Guatemalan masquerade (danza) and the significance of a coin carefully hidden within it.

Object credit: Unidentified artist(s), mask, 20th century (Guatemala); wood, paint, U.S. dime; Fowler Museum At UCLA, X2020.5.2; Gift of the Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection

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