<?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>2026-08-21</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel xml:lang="sv">mask (ansiktsmask)</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>1023540</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/1023540</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>1916.09.0249</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="sv">Gul mask, lik föregående nr 248, men utan ytteröron. Höjd: 22 cm. Breddsy 19 cm. [ocr]</pres:description><pres:content>Mask, deva kolan., 1916.9.249

Name and identification of character
A female attendant of the royal palace, paricarikavak (Sin.), or a nautch-girl, natikanganavak (Sin.).

Context
A female character usually accompanying the royal party in the story portion in a Kolam performance.

Material
Wood, vel-kaduru (Sin.) (Nux vomica).

Iconography
A small mask similar to specimen no. 1916.9.248. The face is painted in yellow. The forehead band represents the frontlet of a dancing girl. It is decorated with the normal petal motif, pala-peti (Sin.), coloured in red and yellow. The hair on the head flows down the cheeks in the form of two curved tresses. 

Comments on the Umlauff Catalogue
The identification of the mask as depicting a ¿Deva-Kolan¿ is incorrect.

2000 06 03
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