<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><pres:item xmlns:pres="http://kulturarvsdata.se/presentation#"><pres:version>1.3.0</pres:version><pres:buildDate>2026-11-06</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel>mask (ansiktsmask), Vädi Raja, Vädda king</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>1023055</pres:id><pres:service>objekt</pres:service><pres:organization xml:lang="sv">Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet</pres:organization><pres:organizationShort>SMVK-EM</pres:organizationShort><pres:type xml:lang="sv">Föremål</pres:type><pres:entityUri>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/1023055</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>1916.09.0010</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="sv">Gul. De stiliserade öronen med långa skåror. Den genombrutna överdelen av kronan är avtagbar. Maskens höjd: 85 cm. 'Bredd: 47 cm. Ceylon Sri Vikråma Sinha Radja, den siste av de singalesiska härskarna i Kandy 1793-1815, illa beryktad för sitt tyranni och sin grymhet. När hans minister Eheylapola hade inlåtit sig med engelsmännen i förrädiska stämplingar och flytt, tog härskaren en fruktansvärd hämnd på hans (dennes) familj. (Forts.) [ocr]</pres:description><pres:content>Vikrama sinha radja., 1916.9.10.A-B.

Name and identification of character
Kolam mask depicting a Vädda king, Vädi Raja (Sin.).

Context 
The chief of the Vädda group (forest-dwelling hunters) appear in the story named Maname kathava in Kolam.

Material
Wood, vel-kaduru (Nux vomica).

Iconography
The head-dress is in the form of a (detachable) crown. The summit is in the shape of a pinnacle, kota (Sin.), but the tier immediately below it displays the attributes of a demon ritual object  referred to as punava (Sin.), with a circle of cobra hoods. The forehead band is ornamented and painted in lemon yellow. The ears are narrow and pendulous and are shaded by imposing side flaps ending at the shoulders, combining with the shoulder blades, karnatapatra (Sin.), which enable the dancer to balance the mask on the shoulders.

Comments on the Umlauff Catalogue
The Umlauff Catalogue identifies the mask as Vikrama Sinha Radja, meaning the monarch Sri Vickrema Raja Sinha, who is recorded in historical works as the last king of Kandy. This is a doubtful identification (vide preface). I would name him as the king of the Väddas, appearing in the Maname kathava in the story portion of Kolam (vide preface).

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