Painted wooden face mask, polychrome, representing young man with moustache wearing fez, said to cure kalaazar fever, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, 1771-1860 Painted polychrome mask 1771-1860
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 wooden face mask, polychrome, representing Hevaya, the soldier from the kolam masked play, his face covered with sores and leeches, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, 1771-1900 Painted mask representing soldier Hevaya from Kolam play 1771-1900
Wooden mask, polychrome painted, representing red demon face, surrounded by cobras with extended hoods with cobra ear pieces, representing kolam play character Naga Raksha (nagarassa), the Cobra, Sri Lanka, 1801-1925 Mask for Kolam play representing Naga Raksha 1801-1925