Large wooden mask, polychrome painted, with socketed earpieces, representing green faced demon with canopied cobra headdress and cobra and lotus disc ear pieces, cobras with extended hoods, either gara-yaka or nagarassa from tovil or kolam ceremonies, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), 1801-1920
Details
- Category:
- Asian Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A125684
- Measurements:
-
overall: 500 mm x 558 mm x 220 mm,
- type:
- mask
- credit:
- Glendining