Painted polychrome mask

Made:
1771-1910 in Sri Lanka

Painted wooden mask, polychrome with detached side-pieces, representing green-faced demon with hooded cobras issuing from nostrils and forming twining headdress and surmounting lotus-disc ear-pieces, nagarassa associated with kolam play, from Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), 1771-1910

Details

Category:
Asian Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A134256
Materials:
complete and wood
Measurements:
overall: 630 mm 500 mm,
type:
mask