Painted face mask

Made:: 1771-1860 in Sri Lanka

maker:: Sinhalese people

Painted wooden face mask, yellow with polychrome detail

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Painted wooden face mask, yellow with polychrome detail
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Painted wooden face mask, yellow with polychrome detail, representing moustached young man wearing small domed headdress, worm eaten, Sinhalese, ear missing, 1771-1860

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Category:: Asian Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A62944

Materials:: incomplete and wood

Measurements:: overall: 255 mm x 168 mm

type:: mask

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Painted face mask

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