Gigaku Mask Of Sacred Bird (karura)
- Title
- Gigaku Mask Of Sacred Bird (karura)
- Abstract
- Mask of plaster-like material over cloth, painted red, blue and green. Bird-like being with a comb and beak (round object held in beak); has fierce expression. Dr. Wells believes that this is one of 41 masks acquired from Orientalia, New York, 1936. Much closer to Karura type than to Tibetan or Chinese masks.
- Collection Name
- Dramatic Museum Realia
- Shelf Location
- Box no. 112, DM number: M11.01
- Subjects
- Birds
- Format
- masks (costume); objects
- Genre
- Gigaku masks
- Origin Information
- Japan
- Date
- between 1700 and 1966
- Physical Description
- 15.625" x 22.5"
- Note
- Date range based on the date range ([18th c.]-1966) of the Dramatic Museum Realia collection
- Note (Original format)
- composition
- Library Location
- Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
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- Also In
- Dramatic museum realia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D88H036M