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Textile973/3

Rectangular shaped fabric textile with a red border around a dark brown background and a central figure. The figure is wearing red leggings, a striped garment and an orange top. In its left hand is a torch and the right has a rooster. The eyes are large, the tongue is protruding and the hair is sticking out.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt973/21 g

A circular, purple skirt. The pieces of grass are dyed purple and secured around a fibre string, also dyed purple. The ends of the string extend beyond the skirt as ties.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
grass, dye and fibre
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrumEh171

Drum made from a cylindrical wooden frame. Skin is stretched over each end with strips of skin that run from end to end. The wood has alternating thin and thicker incised bands that have been painted black, and the wood is varnished. There is a red fabric strap attached through skin loops at either end.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, dye, fibre, skin, lacquer and paint
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskEh141

Mask with humanoid face. Painted dark green-grey overall, has brown hair with a black border, black arched eyebrows, and a red mouth with protruding teeth and a black and brown-yellow rim. The eyes are set in slightly concave sockets and are nearly conical with rounded pupils and concentric black and red circles at the rims. Under each eye is a crescent-shaped hole. The nose is bent with flared nostrils, and there are small, curved ears at either side of the head.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh149 a-b

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet (jester character): head (part b) fits into body clothed in a shirt and pants with floral print and multicoloured pom-poms and a short red skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. The figure's head, hands and feet are painted pink, and the figure has long hair and a beard of undyed plant fibre. The figure is holding a stick with orange-brown feathers in his right hand.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, cotton fibre ?, paint and feather
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh152 a-b

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: head (part b) fits into body clothed in a dark blue jacket with metallic floral print sash and an orange, pink, and blue plaid skirt with yellow leggins underneath (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. Hands and feet are painted pink, and the feet have black shoes with a painted design in yellow, green and red. The figure is wearing a green-grey plastic headdress and has purple twine hair tied in a bun at the back of his head with a black hair moustache that extends out to the ears. The figure's face is painted with a light brown-pink colour.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, cotton fibre ? and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh148 a-b

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: head (part b) fits into body with shirt and skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. The figure is wearing a yellow cloth on its head, a pink kerchief around its neck, a light green-blue t-shirt, and a grey-blue skirt with a linear floral design in grey. The figure's face, hands and feet are painted brown and he has a moustache and hair in dark purple-grey plant fibre.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, cotton fibre ? and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh157 a-b

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet (Policeman character): head with painted black hair (part b) fits into body clothed in a button-down khaki shirt, brown belt and green-brown trousers (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. Figure is dressed as a policeman, wearing a black cap with a silver star on the front, a silver badge pinned to the front of the shirt, carved brown wooden shoes and a wristwatch with a golden face. Figure has a brown face with painted black eyebrows, articulated eyes and nose, a red mouth and a painted black moustache. Attached at the puppet's shoulders and hands are several thin black cords tied to a plain wooden stick.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, fibre, leather skin and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh150

Wooden puppet of a standing bovine animal, with a single hump over its shoulders. The hindquarters, tops of the front legs, shoulders and the neck are covered with burlap. The head is detached from the body, connected only by a sleeve of burlap. There is a cavity underneath the stomach. The face is painted white with black and red rimmed eyes, a red mouth, and articulated horns and ears. A lead line of twined cord is looped through the nostrils.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, fibre, paint and paper
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Puppetry CartEh151 a-h

Puppetry cart, in pieces. Wooden wheel with metal rim (part a), wooden wheel with metal rim that has been broken and bound with twine (part b), wheel axle (part c), arm (part d), arm that has been broken and repaired with wooden supports (part e), base of wagon (part f), two wagon sides (parts g and h). Wheel spokes are painted red; axle and arms are painted red; wagon base is painted red on one face and three sides with a thin white line inside a thicker black line on the red face; the two wagon sides are painted red with a yellow border, a yellow line in a recessed groove. The sides are inscribed with "1976" painted in white and black, with a black reverse.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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