Here we have a vintage Felipe de Jesús Horta Tera hand carved and painted mask. This mask is used in the Danza de Los Viejitos Ceremony. ( the Dance Of The Old Men) It measures approximately 8 1/4 inches in height x 6 1/8 inches across. It is in dated 11 /21/ 1992 and it is carved from either Copal wood or Avocado wood. Please look at all the pictures they are a very important part of the description.

Felipe de Jesús Horta Tera is a master mask carver from Tócuaro, Michoacán, a Purépecha community known throughout Mexico for its carved wooden masks used in pastorela celebrations held each year around Candlemas. He is a second generation mascarero who began learning at age twelve from his father, Eustacio Horta Castillo, continuing a family line of mask makers active since the 1940s.