Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1985
label: Collection Date
content: Early 1900's
name: label: Collector
content: Miguel Covarrubias
label: Collector
content: Rosa Covarrubias
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Thomas J. Williams
notes: label: Notes
content: WOODEN, PAINTED FEMALE HEAD ON HANDLE, CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD. BLACK HEADBAND DECORATED WITH GOLD FLORAL DESIGN; WHITE FACE WITH RED EYES, LIPS, EARS, AND YELLOW EARPLUGS. THREE HOLES ON HANDLE AND BRIDGE- LIKE DEPRESSION CUTOUT ON FLAT BACK OF THE HEAD AS FASTEN-ING DEVICES. POSSIBLY THE "MASK-LIKE" WOODEN, PAINTED OBJECT USED AS ATTACHMENT TO THE SACRED GOD FIGURE AT TEMPLE FESTIVALS. OR A PROTOTYPE "GIANT PUPPET" MASK USEDIN RITUAL PANTOMIC DANCE. ONE OF THE "OLDEST BALINESE MASKS", ACCORDING TO DONOR'S COLLECTION INFORMATION. REF.:BELO, JANE. BALI:TEMPLE FESTIVAL, MONOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, NO. 22, 1953, P.6; COVARRUBIAS, MIGUEL. ISLAND OF BALI. ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1947,PP. 287; HOLT, C. ART IN INDONESIA, CORNELL UNIVER- SITY PRESS, 1967,P. 108.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bali, Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Balinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 360964
label: USNM Number
content: E422939-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 21.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 17.8 cm