mask (dance & live theatre)

Painted mask carved from one piece of wood, apart from the addition of two ear plugs, inserted below the lobes. The female human face is painted a dull greenish yellow with pinkish red full lips, and has staring eyes. Above the forehead is a band of three cobras painted withcross-hatching on the hood and body, the underside striped red and black on white. Above this is one erect large hooded cobra, the body striped in red and black on white, the hood in green and yellow with scales and cross-hatching in black, and an S shape in pinkish red on each side. This cobra has projecting eyes and many teeth in its open jaws.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn3516
Date
19th century
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 510 mm x 210 mm x 240 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; paint
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
World Gallery > World Gallery Balcony > Horniman's Vision
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