This mask of a woman is unusually striking, due to the elaborate curled hair. More usually a female Huehue mask will have an elevated hairline, but the surface of the hair will be plain.Otherwise this mask illustrates many typical features of Huehue masks in general- painted eyes under vision slits, a pink European style face, painted elaboration of the hairline to suit the dancer and carefully carved ears.

Sometimes the earlobes are pierced for earings, and this can be an amusing feature, for a female mask that has been converted to male by a painted on mustache. In this case the ears are unpierced, but earrings have been attached under the ears. As is often the case with masks from this region, the chisel marks on the back of the mask have not been completely smoothed out, nevertheless the mask has been heavily worn.

In Barbara Mauldin’s book- Tigers, Devils and the Dance of Life: Masks of Mexico, there is on p. 26 a photo of the most typical female Huehue mask from this region.