Polychrome mask representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease-demon

Made:: 1771-1910 in Sri Lanka

maker:: Sinhalese people

Painted wooden mask, polychrome, with side panels, representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease-demon with victims and 18 attendant demons, damaged, arms missing, Sinhalese, 1771-1910

Details

Category:: Asian Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A230017

Materials:: incomplete, not recorded and wood

Measurements:: overall: 1100 mm x 450 mm

type:: mask

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Polychrome mask representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease-demon

Painted wooden mask, polychrome, with side panels, representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease-demon with victims and 18 attendant demons, damaged, arms missing, Sinhalese, 1771-1910

Measurements:: overall: 1100 mm x 450 mm

Materials:: wood

Object Number:: A230017/1

type:: mask

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Right panel of polychrome mask representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease-demon

Right panel of painted wooden mask, polychrome, with side panels, representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease-demon with victims and 18 attendant demons, damaged, arms missing, Sinhalese, 1771-1910

Materials:: wood

Object Number:: A230017/2

type:: mask

Left panel of polychrome mask representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease-demon

Left panel of painted wooden mask, polychrome, with side panels, representing Maha Kola Sanniya, chief disease-demon with victims and 18 attendant demons, damaged, arms missing, Sinhalese, 1771-1910