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Wooden dance mask - painted
Object Number 38-112-70/1027
Display Title Wooden dance mask - painted
Descriptions
Inventory Description Mask, carved wooden face, painted white, gold, red, pink and black decorations, open mouth with fangs and tusks, teeth, protruding eyes, elongated ears, perforated earlobes, crests atop head, thin painted paper decorations extending from either side of mouth, ears attached to head with fiber, interior of mask undecorated
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Indonesia / Lesser Sunda Islands / Bali
Materials Wood , Pigment , Rattan , Skin?
Dimensions Overall: 25.5 × 27 × 13 cm (10 1/16 × 10 5/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 38-112-70/1027

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