Photographer: Martin Franken | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Tsam Dancing Mask Garuda Head
Tibetan Buddhist Tsam dance mask; red with a green snake in the beak and a white skull on the crown. Garuda - half kite, half man - eats a snake, a symbol of victory over the forces of destruction. (Commentary by Siegmar Nahser)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Tsam dance mask
Dimensions
Height: 48 cm
Depth: 23 cm
Width: 30 cm
Depth: 23 cm
Width: 30 cm
Material/Technique
Fabric, Lacquer , glued fabric, Fabric; Technique (glued); Lacquer
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I D 39096 a,b
Provenance and sources
when
20th century (2nd half of the), before 1971
where
Tibet [Land/Region]
who
Raw Material Processing Company, Melbourne - Former Possessors
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