Durga / Rangda

Namedance mask

Artist Artist Not Recorded

CultureBalinese

Date1994

(not assigned)Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

MediumWood, paint, water buffalo hide, glass, animal hair (horse, goat monkey?), plant fiber

Dimensions50 × 16 × 12 in. (127.0003 × 40.6401 × 30.4801 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Eberhardt family in memory of Dr. Nikolai Eberhardt

Object numberA.2024.3.1

ProvenanceMask was commissioned by Karin Eberhardt for her father near Ubud, Bali.

DescriptionLarge dance mask with the face of Durga carved in wood and painted. Large eyes and two long pointed teeth with her tongue in red fabric. Three gold jewels, two blue and one green in the center adorn the tongue, as well as two more blue adornments in the ears. Long tassels of alternating stripes of black and white in the hair, which is made up of fibers and real animal hair.