<?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>2026-07-10</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel xml:lang="sv">mask (ansiktsmask)</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>1023704</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/1023704</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>1916.09.0273</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="sv">Det nästan endast av en näsa bestående ansiktet är mörkgrönt. Underkäken rörlig. Endast kor-ta huggtänder i det röda gapet. I pannan endast en kobra. I stället för dem vid sidorna två gula, mad rött tecknade fågelstjärtar. öronskivor saknas. Höjd: 26 cm. Bredd: 16 cm. [ocr]</pres:description><pres:content>Mask, garu kolan., 1916.9.273

Name and identification of character
A gara mask of the smaller type, kila gara (Sin.).

Context
A demon character in the demon dance in Kolam, Gara Nätuma (Sin.), in the demon ceremony Gara Yakuma (vide Preface), and in the finale of the god-rituals called Devolmaduva and Gammaduva. 

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

Iconography
The head-dress is composed of only one cobra-hood. On the two sides of the hood are two wooden planks. These are carved in the shape of wings in three layers, adorned with petal designs, pala-peti (Sin.), painted in red, yellow and black. As usual, the centre cobra-hood rises from the bridge of the nose, which has a sacred spot, a tilaka (Sin.). The nose is broad and coloured in green. Goggle eyes. Decorated eyebrows. Padded gums painted in dark red. The lower jaw is movable. Projecting eye-teeth. The ear-discs are missing (which is the case also in the Umlauff Catalogue).

2000 07 26
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