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Painted wooden face mask, yellow with polychrome detail

Made:: 1771-1900 in Sri Lanka

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Painted wooden face mask, yellow with polychrome detail, representing man with crudely painted moustache and goatee wearing sari-like headdress, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, 1771-1900

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Category:: Asian Medicine

Object Number:: A30158

type:: masks ethnography (sinhalese), folk medicine (general), anthropomorphic, ethnography (sinhalese), folk medicine (general), male and masks

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