Carved and painted wood mask. The mask is a long oval that comes to points at the top and bottom of the face. The nose tapers to a pointed tip. The eyes are two inlaid cowrie shells within a painted black area. At the top centre of the head is a hole with a short length of braided plant fibre tie...

Long, thin woven textile that is heavily embroidered on one side. Both short edges have twisted fringe. At centre, a wide band of red embroidered with beige X designs is flanked by two smaller bands of dark blue. On either side, are dark blue-grey panels each with a row of large embroidered cat-l...

Wooden painted mask of the queen character. Humanoid face with narrow eyes, a wide nose and rounded cheeks. Mask is wearing a gold crown, with curvilinear motifs carved into it. Hair is painted black and done in two stylized ponytails that curve down and extend outward from the face. Mouth is clo...

Wooden painted mask of the character Rangda. Humanoid, demon-like face with bulging eyes, a protruding nose and four tusk-like teeth. Light blue and gold scalloped headdress on top of mask. Central scallop is red and has three triangular protrusions with a teardrop-shaped projection in the centre...

Wooden painted mask. Dark grey elephant face with bulging eyes, a curved trunk, large ears and two tusks. Red-orange and black scalloped headdress on top of mask, with smaller curved triangles in front of scallops. Three triangular protrusions in front of central scallop with circular protrusion ...

Wooden painted mask. Humanoid, demon-like face with bulging eyes, a protruding nose, large ears with stretched earlobes and four tusk-like teeth. Dark green and red scalloped headdress on top of mask with a tiered cylinder in the centre. Three triangles around middle tier and a teardrop-shaped pr...

Belt with repeating red and white geometric design with vertical stripes and zigzags on either end. Each side has a solid blue, red, and light blue stripe. Six plaited tassels at each end.

Piece of cloth completely embroidered with three rows of repeating geometric shapes in red, black and orange. The bottom edge is finished with a loop stitch in red; the other three sides have cut edges.

Poncho. A large woven textile with a vertical slit as an opening in the centre. The poncho is a deep red with three vertical columns of attached blocky diamond-shapes. The bottom edges of the front and back have long looped fringe. On both front and back, there are strings on either side of the c...

Wooden plaque-like mask. Flat, demon-like face, with wide eyes, wide nose and four small tusk-like teeth, in centre of plaque. Face is wearing a dark gold, scalloped headdress, forming the top edge of the plaque. Central semi-circle on headdress with carved details, painted in red and black. Bott...