Collection record · Moche
Mask
A Moche mask whose catalogue material line combines silvered copper, shell and stone, showing why “metal mask” is often too imprecise a description.
- Maker
- Maker not named in the catalogue record
- Culture
- Moche
- Place / collection
- Peru · Arts of the Americas, The Met
- Date
- 6th–7th century
- Materials
- Silvered copper, shell and stone
- Object ID
- 1979.206.1282 · API 313447
Editorial note
What the record supports
Surface, substrate and inlay should be documented separately when the record supports that distinction.
We reproduce the published culture and place fields from the museum. We do not use resemblance to identify an unrecorded object, and we do not add ceremonial meaning without an object-specific source.
Image & source
A record readers can check
Image: Public Domain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access. Catalogue data: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Current collection page ↗
Institutional byline: Mask & Craft Archive Editorial Desk
Published: 25 August 2026
Last checked: 30 August 2026