Theatre Mask
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: Asia & Middle East Region
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: A carved wooden mask depicting a Raksasa Demon, probably used in wayang-topeng dance-and-drama shows common in Indonesia, particularly Java and Bali. These shows are based on the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics and feature struggles between noble and evil characters. The demon is wearing a small crown and has a protruding sculpted nose. Other prominent features are its large dark eyes, mustache, goatee, and fanged teeth, all of which indicate this mask represents an evil character. The face is painted mostly in light flesh tones, with red and black highlights for anatomical features and hair below a colorful crown of yellow, blue, red, and green. The interior of the mask is smooth and blackened with carved out spaces for the eyes and nostrils. A long crack appears through the left eye of the mask where the object had been broken and since repaired.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Aug 2022
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Asia, Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400510-DSP
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Wood, Paint