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Painted wooden mask in form of boar's head

Painted wooden mask in form of boar's head

1771-1900
Face mask representing Hevaya, the soldier from the Kolam play

Face mask representing Hevaya, the soldier from the Kolam play

1771-1900
Painted wooden face mask

Painted wooden face mask

1771-1900
Face mask for Kolam or Tovil performance

Face mask for Kolam or Tovil performance

1771-1900
Ritual dance mask

Ritual dance mask

1771-1910
Carved and painted wooden sanni mask, polychrome, representing brown-faced demon with twisted mouth and teeth, worn in tovil dance to exorcize particular disease, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, 1771-1910. Probably represents Kora Sanniya, demon associated with lameness and paralysis.

Painted sanni mask from Tovil exorcising dance

1771-1910
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

Painted polychrome wooden mask with separate side panels

1771-1900