Painted wooden mask, polychrome, side-pieces detached, with hook for suspending, representing red-faced demon with hooded cobras forming headdress and issuing from nostrils, ear-pieces like lotus-discs surmounted by cobras, nagarassa from Kolam play, from Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), 1771-1910
Details
- Category:
- Asian Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657016
- Measurements:
-
overall: 550 mm x 230 mm
- type:
- mask
