Mask
Item number 2872/4 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number 2872/4 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Mask of a woman’s face, with delicately carved features. The face has closed red lips, with small lines carved at each side of the mouth. The protruding nose has two nostril holes bored through the wood. Eyeholes are also bored, and sit directly under the pupils of long slanted eyes. The eyebrows are black and quite thick. A headdress decorated with up-pointing triangles covers the hair. The inside of the mask is concave and painted brown with a seal carved into the wood and painted bronze and red. Text has been carved above the seal.
Wooden Indonesian theatre or dancing mask (wayang topeng).
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Wooden Indonesian theatre or dancing mask (wayang topeng).
Mask of a woman’s face, with delicately carved features. The face has closed red lips, with small lines carved at each side of the mouth. The protruding nose has two nostril holes bored through the wood. Eyeholes are also bored, and sit directly under the pupils of long slanted eyes. The eyebrows are black and quite thick. A headdress decorated with up-pointing triangles covers the hair. The inside of the mask is concave and painted brown with a seal carved into the wood and painted bronze and red. Text has been carved above the seal.
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