Mask
A1603D
From: Sri Lanka
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | A1603D |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sinhalese |
| Provenience | Sri Lanka |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Iconography | Female | Cobras |
| Description | Devil dancer's mask with large black eyes and red face, black painted moustache, two rows teeth with protruding tongue. Above this face stands a female figure with a starred body between two cobras and one cobra on her head. Cobras have diamond pattern on bodies. |
| Credit Line | Gift of George G. Heye, 1918 |
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