<?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>2026-10-30</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel xml:lang="sv">mask (ansiktsmask)</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>1024462</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/1024462</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>1916.09.0306</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="sv">Röd mask.. Nosen med svart hår. Ormarnas bottenfärg gul.. En öronskiva saknas. Underkäken rörlig. Höjd: 24 cm. Bredd: 22 cm. [ocr]</pres:description><pres:content>Mask, garu kolan., 1916.9.306

Name and identification of character
The mask depicts the demon of blood, riri yaka (Sin.).

Context
This demon mask is used in a demon ceremony known by several names: Riddi yagaya, Rata yakuma, and Kalas vaidde (Sin.).

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

Iconography
The mask is small and has a headdress composed of five cobras. The cobra-hoods form a diadem, referred to as vattuva in Sinhalese. The cobras are painted predominantly in red with a few lines in reddish-yellow. The eyes are small and deep set. The eyebrows are also deep set and painted with petal designs. A small nose and a closed mouth. The closed mouth differs from the mouth of a gara demon. Two eye-teeth. Whiskers resembling those of a monkey are painted around the mouth. The ears are missing.

Comments on the Umlauff Catalogue
The identification of the mask as Garu kolan is incorrect. 

2000 01 19
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