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mask
1916.9.340
Name and identification of character
A demon referred to as purnaka raksa (Sin.).
Context
Stage two in a Kolam performance.
Material
Wood, vel-kaduru (Sin.) (Nux vomica).
Iconography
The mouth is in the shape of an animal snout with whiskers painted in black lines. It is elongated and painted in red. The mouth is half-open with broad jaws, two sets of carnivorous teeth, two eye-teet…
Publisher
- Etnografiska museet
Subject
- Kulturhistoria
- Anderson, John Francis
- Andersson, John Frans
- Bildkonst (532)
- Dans (535)
- Drama (536)
- Konst (530)
- Kuba-Andersson
Type of item
- mask
- Mask
Medium
- carved
- painted
- wood
- Wood
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Places
- http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/aukt/geo/country#lk
- Sri Lanka
- South-western coastal belt
- Sri Lanka
Provenance
- Brukad i South western coastal belt
- Tillverkad i South-western coastal belt
- Ursprung i Sri Lanka
Identifier
- http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/1023652
- 1916.09.0340
- http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/1023652
Extent
- Bredd 29 cm
- Djup 24 cm
Language
- swe
- sv
Is part of
- http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/samling/1021162
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-08-27T14:53:09.109Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-09-14T08:55:33.471Z