Specifications

  • Height: 40 cm.
  • Material: wood, monkey skin, brass, silver
  • Position:
  • Gender:
  • Indigenous name: topeng
  • Price realised:

Provenance

Loed van Bussel, 1975 sold to Indonesisch Etnografisch Museum Delft (Museum Nusantara Delft), now Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden Inv. nr. 7082-S-460-1.

Publications

Wentholt, Arnold (2014), Highlights from Museum Nusantara Delft, 26-27.

Exhibitions

 

Additional information

This is a helmet-type mask for funerals and harvest festivals. Function of this particular mask in the stage is unknown.

 

Photo credits

Contact Arnold Wentholt

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