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Dance mask made of cut and painted wood. White face color with details in red, black and gold. The mask has a smiling mouth, with blotted upper tooth row, diadem and outstanding ears with ear plugs. The ears are loose and fastened with the laces of plant fiber.
The mask is likely to represent a Raja Putri (queen). Queen the masks are white or yellow and with sophisticated smiles (see description below). Refined, with a former smile, radiant, determined, but at the same time questioning, Ramseyer describes a royal mask in The Art and Culture of Bali. (Ramseyer, Urs. 1977. p.218)
According to the catalogue general, the mask is a copy after the organ at Bali, which is considered sacred.
“Topeng is the mask play and” with the old, princes and “of Majapahit and Gèlgèl. It is fear all a ritual dance drama, ancestral” that must be purest form when with silently by a single dancer "one type of after the (topeng pajegan). A case of masks (tapel) included one kings more, that is, smiling masks in white or yellow, a 'strong and mi
(NS)
Title: mask, topeng, tapel
Description:
Dance mask made of cut and painted wood.
White face color with details in red, black and gold.
The mask has a smiling mouth, with blotted upper tooth row, diadem and outstanding ears with ear plugs.
The ears are loose and fastened with the laces of plant fiber.
The mask is likely to represent a Raja Putri (queen).
Queen the masks are white or yellow and with sophisticated smiles (see description below).
Refined, with a former smile, radiant, determined, but at the same time questioning, Ramseyer describes a royal mask in The Art and Culture of Bali.
(Ramseyer, Urs.
1977.
p.
218)
According to the catalogue general, the mask is a copy after the organ at Bali, which is considered sacred.
“Topeng is the mask play and” with the old, princes and “of Majapahit and Gèlgèl.
It is fear all a ritual dance drama, ancestral” that must be purest form when with silently by a single dancer "one type of after the (topeng pajegan).
A case of masks (tapel) included one kings more, that is, smiling masks in white or yellow, a 'strong and mi
(NS).
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