19th C. Sri Lankan Painted Wood Festival Mask

Asia, Sri Lanka, 19th century CE. This is a huge, somewhat grotesque Kolam mask to be worn in festivals and dances. Painted yellow, with bulging eyes and a pointed chin ending in a beard made of straw

Central Asia, Nepal, ca. 19th century CE. A fierce wooden festival mask, hand-carved with bulging eyes, a large, snub nose, and a mouth full of huge canines and protruding tongue. The face is covered

Indonesia, Bali or Java, ca. late 19th century CE. This is a hand carved wood mask with wide, staring eyes and a pronounced pointed nose. The face is painted pink, with black and red details. Atop the

Indonesia, Bali or Java, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An early, hand-carved wooden mask with bulging red and black eyes, a leering mouth with huge canines that extend down the chin, a gloss

**Previously Listed At $100** Sri Lanka, ca. early 20th century CE. A polychrome, hand carved and painted Sanni mask used in healing exorcist ceremonies. As is traditional, this example depicts an ugl

Central America, Mexico, Guerrero, Nahua culture, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A superb hand carved wood festival mask with grinning Cheshire-like feline face. The brows and whiskers are ma

19th Century. Two fragments from a processional/festival cart. Inscribed Catania. Carved with a frieze of soldiers and painted with metal cast masks and candle holders and scrolled metal work. Polychr

**Originally Listed At $300** Central Asia, Nepal, ca. 19th century CE. Hand-carved from wood, an expressive mask, the elongated ovoid visage with openwork rectangular eyes, a protruding aquiline nose

Latin America, Mexico, ca. 20th century CE. A lovely hand-carved wooden carnival or festival mask depicting an older male with a prominent nose, full lips, a black-painted moustache, and an arching br

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA ** Central America, Guatemala, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A well-executed and relatively old Guatem

Central America, Guatemala, 20th century CE. A huge wooden mask, painted realistically, showing a pale-complexioned person with blue eyes and straight brown hair. Slits under the eyes provide vision f

**Originally Listed At $500** Mexico, early 20th century. Rare carved wooden festival dance mask painted black with long sinewy snake emerging where nose should be. Snake is painted a vibrant red, gre

Central Asia, India or Sri Lanka, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A matched pair of paduka, India's oldest form of footwear. These examples may have belonged to a bride's trousseau, with elabo

**First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Nepal, Himalayan region, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A striking festival mask, hand-carved from hard wood with bulging eyes, a full nose, tall ears,

New World, Guatemala, ca. mid 20th century CE. A fantastical, striking festival mask in the form of a bat, with the head of the animal forming the lower part of the mask; the ears project upward and a

**First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Nepal, ca. early 20th century CE. Carved from a single piece of wood and painted in a vibrant red, black, silver, white, and yellow ochre color scheme, a vibran

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA ** South America, Argentina, ca. 20th century CE. A festive bird mask, hand carved from a single piece of

**Originally Listed At $300** Central America, Guatemala, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A wonderful set of 3 hand-carved wooden festival masks depicting mustachioed men, perhaps representing

Nepal or Bhutan, ca late 18th to early 19th century CE. Large and wonderfully expressive mask representing Nyelbum - the sinner. Painted in deep blue and yellow with wrinkled forehead and cheeks, larg

Indonesia, Bali or Java, 19th century CE. This is an antique hand carved wooden mask with wide, staring eyes, a long, pointed, upturned nose, curled black incised hair, and a grinning face. This mask

Africa, Nigeria, Isoko Peoples, ca, late 19th / early 20th century CE. Attractive abstract human form mask. Long, thin, angular jaw, twin tendrils of hair hang to the sides, heavy forehead and angular

**Originally Listed At $600** West Africa, Yoruba peoples, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A fine example with nice aged patina of one of the most distinctive forms of West African masks. This is a

**Originally Listed At $300** Central Asia, Nepal, ca. 19th century CE. Wonderfully expressive mask representing a monkey / Hanuman - the celestial monkey god. Carved from a single piece of hardwood,

Height 12 inches.