Painted wooden mask, yellow in colour. Upper rim of enlarged eyeholes, nostrils and lips are all a deep red colour. Bottom jaw is a separate piece of wood, attached with string. String attached at sides.

Painted wooden mask, pink in colour, with black around cheeks, chin and forehead. Mouth extends into the grimace with full white teeth and red lips. Eyelet and wire on the back for hanging. Inscription on back.

Painted black wooden mask with black face and bulbous eyes. Face has a wide grimace with thick red lips, full teeth with elongated insisors which hang down on both sides of the chin.

Painted wooden mask with flesh-coloured complexion and a furrowed brow. Strips of brown fur are nailed in place for the eyebrows and mustache. Bottom of mask ends at the jaw.

Multiple pages of Sinhala script etched into palm leaves between wooden covers painted with red and yellow leaf designs. Book is joined together by a long string that goes through a hole at one end of the book. There is a clear glass bead at one end of the string.

Pages of script written on palm leaf. The pages are joined by a string that goes through a hole in the middle of the pages and then wraps around the book with a small circular wood knob. Two smaller notes are also wrapped with the book. The book is part a; parts b-c are loose pieces of leaf with script.

High-waisted, long-sleeved, red cotton top with four tie closures down the back. White ruffles and a black stripe around both cuffs. Bands of white and black stripes run down the tops of the sleeves and down the front and back on either side of the neckline.

Triangular shaped headdress made of cotton and synthetic fabric. The sides are dark blue while the middle section is orange with a scalloped edge. Almost the entire surface is decorated with clear, grey and gold coloured beads as well as green and gold sequins. There are smaller sections of floral fabric detailing. The underside is lined with an orange and blue fabric detailed with a line and floral pattern on a cream ground. The ends have a brown fibre twine tie.

Thirty-two plastic beads strung on two pieces of thread, knotted at ends. A sequence of a round, yellow bead followed by a teardrop-shaped white bead, and spherical white bead repeats six times on one side. Next there is a purple spherical bead, a teardrop-shaped metallic bead, a spherical dark grey bead, red bead and pink bead, and then the strand ends in a mixed combination of the yellow spherical, white spherical and teardrop-shaped white beads.

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: head with yellow truban (part b) fits into body clothed in a yellow tunic and off-white skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. The face is painted brown with a black moustache and black hair.