Bhuta mask of the deity Panjurli

Object Details

• Description

  The mask depicts the head of a boar with an elaborate headdress and earrings. The headdress is decorated with rows of cobra heads. The earrings on the mask are also decorated with cobra heads and additionally, on one, a human figure, and on the other, an elephant head. Two of the cobra heads each has hanging from it a small heart-shaped pendant with a bead at the end.

• Origin

  Kanara, India

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dr. Siddharth K. Bhansali

• Type

  Mask

• On View

  Sackler Gallery 22a: The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1930s, 1900s

• Place

  Kanara, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Boar, Cobra, Art

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Masks

• On View

  Yes