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27 Aug 2014

Gul. Mellersta rosetten vit, kantad med grönt och rött. Höjd: 25 cm. Bredd: 20 cm. [ocr] Sri Lanka Ceylon 1916.9.42 Name and identification of character A young princess, kumarikava (Sin.). Context This character appears with the royal party in the story part in Kolam. The name of the story cannot be clearly established because stock characters as this fit into any of the stories connected with royalty. Material Wood, Vel-kaduru (Sin.) (Nux vomica). Iconography There is no separate coronet, but three flowers on a tall forehead band. The ears are in low relief, with two ear-ornaments merely registered. The face is copper coloured. The ears are cut on two slabs of wood decorated with dots. 2000 03 08 Dr. M. H. Goonatilleka 1916.09.0042 Sri Lanka Ceylon 1916.9.42 Name and identification of character A young princess, kumarikava (Sin.). Context This character appears with the royal party in the story part in Kolam. The name of the story cannot be clearly established because stock characters as this fit into any of the stories connected with royalty. Material Wood, Vel-kaduru (Sin.) (Nux vomica). Iconography There is no separate coronet, but three flowers on a tall forehead band. The ears are in low relief, with two ear-ornaments merely registered. The face is copper coloured. The ears are cut on two slabs of wood decorated with dots. 2000 03 08 Dr. M. H. Goonatilleka 1916.09.0042
wood mask kulturhistoria bildkonst (532) konst (530) drama (536) dans (535) kuba-andersson anderson, john francis andersson, john frans
Published in
Sri Lanka
Reference
1916.09.0042
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source
Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/91619/SMVK_EM_objekt_1023169

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