http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/1023150
type: Entity
ksamsok version: 1.3.0
service name: objekt
service organization: SMVK-EM
service organization full: Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet
build date: 2026-08-28
url: https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1023150
subject: culturalHistory
data quality: raw
item super type: object
item type: object
item key word: 1916.09.0027
item key word: Singaleser
item key word: Bildkonst (532)
item key word: Dans (535)
item key word: Drama (536)
item key word: Konst (530)
item key word: Kuba-Andersson
item key word: Anderson, John Francis
item key word: Andersson, John Frans
item key word: Ceylon
item motive word: queen
item technique: painted
item technique: carved
item label: mask (ansiktsmask), mask
is part of: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/samling/1021162
has part: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/delobjekt/1023151
has part: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/delobjekt/1023152
has part: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/delobjekt/1023208
is visualized by: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/fotografi/1461172
is visualized by: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/fotografi/1461175
is visualized by: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/fotografi/25646466
is visualized by: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/fotografi/25646471
P12 B.was present at: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/exhibition/1434133
P12 B.was present at: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/exhibitionpart/2703230
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Beskrivning
  desc: Orangegult ansikte. I kronans ornamentering lägger man märke till 4 sittande figurer buddor med utsträckta händer. Den höga toppen på kronan påminnande om schackpjäser består av två hälfter. Mot den röda bakgrunden framträder de vita rosetterna verkningsfullt. Höjd: 120 cm. Bredd: 35 cm. [ocr]
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Beskrivning
  desc: Mask, calinga devi.
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Beskrivning / engelska
  desc: 1916.9.27 Name and identification of character Kolam mask depicting a queen, Bisava/Devi muna (Sin.). Context This character appears in the preliminary portion of a Kolam performance. The mask is very tall and heavy. Dancers therefore use it only when the royal party perambulates in the dance arena, prior to the performance of separate stories. The lower layers of the mask are hollowed and cover the entire head of the dancer. The mask is one of the most prominent ones in a Kolam repertoire. Names of three queens are associated with this mask. They are Kalinga Devi/Bisava, Maha Sammata Devi/Bisava, and Malukerthi Devi (vide Preface). As usual, the mask is taken off the dancer (all female characters are enacted by females) and is placed near the mask of the king, while the rest of the dances are enacted. Material Wood, Vel-kaduru (Nux vomica). Iconography This is mask is, as 1916.9.26, a tall and hollowed mask with a detachable spire in several layers, with a small pinnacle at its crest. The lower part of the crown, on which the detachable top is placed, is not detached from the head, as is the case of 1916.9.26. But the carver has crafted the face, head and the lower tier of the crown in one block of wood for which great skill in craftsmanship is required. The crown is ornately carved and decked with excessive foliage and flower designs typical of the Kandyan art form. What is unusual is the presence of four sculpted figures of females on the layer above the forehead band. These are the nari lata (Sin.) figures, who can be characterised as both naturalistic as well as anthropomorphic (vide Preface). Nari lata is a creeper maiden. The figures are sculpted within circular patterns of foliage, their hands clutching the branches for support. Although, in the Umlauff Catalogue the figures are suspected to be Buddhas (¿4 sitzende Figuren ­ Buddhas?¿), it is not so. There is another such figure sculpted in the same position at the back of the head, almost on the opposite si… @en
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Utställning / tidigare
  desc: Riksmuseets etnografiska avdelnings nya utställning
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Utställning, del av / tidigare
  desc: Riksmuseets etnografiska avdelning, sal 2
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Land / engelska
  desc: Sri Lanka @en
item description: ItemDescription
  type: Geografiskt namn / annat
  desc: Ceylon
item material: ItemMaterial
  type: Materialkategori
  material: trä
item material: ItemMaterial
  type: Material
  material: trä
item material: ItemMaterial
  type: Material, engelska
  material: wood @en
item measurement: ItemMeasurement
  type: Höjd
  value: 120
  unit: cm
item measurement: ItemMeasurement
  type: Bredd
  value: 62
  unit: cm
item measurement: ItemMeasurement
  type: Djup
  value: 36
  unit: cm
item name: ItemName
  type: Sakord
  name: mask (ansiktsmask)
item name: ItemName
  type: Sakord, engelska
  name: mask @en
item number: ItemNumber
  type: Inventarienummer
  number: 1916.09.0027
context: Andersson, John Fredrik
  type: Context
  context label: Förvärvad
  context type: transact
  context super type: interact
  from time: 1916
  to time: 1916
  intermediary: http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1022981
context: Context
  context label: Brukad
  context type: use
  context super type: interact
  place name: South western coastal belt
context: Singaleser
  type: Context
  context label: Brukad
  context type: use
  context super type: interact
  user: Q932244
context: Context
  context label: Tillverkad
  context type: produce
  context super type: create
  place name: South-western coastal belt
context: Context
  context label: Ursprung
  context type: use
  context super type: interact
  country: lk
  continent name: Asien
  country name: Sri Lanka
context: Riksmuseets etnografiska avdelnings nya utställning
  type: Context
  context label: Utställd
  context type: display
  context super type: interact
  place name: Riksmuseets etnografiska avdelning, Vallingatan 2, Stockholm
  from time: 1917-05-11
  to time: 1918
image: Image
  media type: image/jpeg
  byline: Uppgift om fotograf saknas
  copyright: Statens museer för världskultur
  media license: by
  media license url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
image: Image
  media type: image/jpeg
  byline: Uppgift om fotograf saknas
  copyright: Statens museer för världskultur
  media license: by
  media license url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item license: cc0
item license url: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
presentation: 1.3.0 2026-08-28 mask (ansiktsmask) Rådata 1023150 objekt Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet SMVK-EM Föremål http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/1023150 1916.09.0027 Orangegult ansikte. I kronans ornamentering lägger man märke till 4 sittande figurer buddor med utsträckta händer. Den höga toppen på kronan påminnande om schackpjäser består av två hälfter. Mot den röda bakgrunden framträder de vita rosetterna verkningsfullt. Höjd: 120 cm. Bredd: 35 cm. [ocr] Mask, calinga devi., 1916.9.27 Name and identification of character Kolam mask depicting a queen, Bisava/Devi muna (Sin.). Context This character appears in the preliminary portion of a Kolam performance. The mask is very tall and heavy. Dancers therefore use it only when the royal party perambulates in the dance arena, prior to the performance of separate stories. The lower layers of the mask are hollowed and cover the entire head of the dancer. The mask is one of the most prominent ones in a Kolam repertoire. Names of three queens are associated with this mask. They are Kalinga Devi/Bisava, Maha Sammata Devi/Bisava, and Malukerthi Devi (vide Preface). As usual, the mask is taken off the dancer (all female characters are enacted by females) and is placed near the mask of the king, while the rest of the dances are enacted. Material Wood, Vel-kaduru (Nux vomica). Iconography This is mask is, as 1916.9.26, a tall and hollowed mask with a detachable spire in several layers, with a small pinnacle at its crest. The lower part of the crown, on which the detachable top is placed, is not detached from the head, as is the case of 1916.9.26. But the carver has crafted the face, head and the lower tier of the crown in one block of wood for which great skill in craftsmanship is required. The crown is ornately carved and decked with excessive foliage and flower designs typical of the Kandyan art form. What is unusual is the presence of four sculpted figures of females on the layer above the forehead band…