Painted polychrome wooden mask with separate side panels
- maker:
- Sinhalese people
Painted polychrome wooden mask with separate side panels, representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease demon, with victims and heads of 18 attendant demons, from Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), panels secured by metal pins, 1771-1900
Details
- Category:
- Asian Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A35474
- Materials:
- wood, kaduru or ruk-attana, hook, metal, screw-rings, metal and pins, brass
- Measurements:
-
approximately: height 1145 mm
approximately: width 81 mm
- type:
- masks
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
