Mask
- Museum number:
- 9-10923
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090010923
- Alternate number:
- 98 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2696
- Description:
- Mask for "Ram Lila" play performances, demon type; cardboard, cloth, yarn, velvet, beads, 35 cm length; 41 cm width
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
- Collection place:
- Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
- Collector:
- Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
- Collection date:
- January 1970
- Materials:
- Cardboard, Velvet (fabric weave), and Yarn
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- November 11, 1970
- Context of use:
- Used by men in "Ram Lila" plays which happen around "Dashera" festival. Made by men.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- width 41 centimeters and length 35 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1981-1982 #39: University of California, Davis/Pat Charley (January 19, 1982–March 30, 1982)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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