Mask of "Hanuman" ("King of the apes") ·  India - Himachal Pradesh · ID: 3036032

Description

wood, dark brown grounding, remains of black paint, white and red pigment, concave vaulted facial plane with an overlong flat nose and a teeth-revealing mouth, slightly dam., cracks (left eye, right side of the head), paint rubbed off;
“hanuman” is a Hindu deity, who is an ardent devotee of “rama”, a central character in the Indian epic Ramayana. A general among the “vanaras”, an ape-like race of forest-dwellers, “hanuman” is an incarnation of the divine, whose fate it is to aid the hero “rama” in the struggle against the demon king “ravana”.

The object Mask of “Hanuman” (“King of the apes”) with the object ID 3036032 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 15.

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