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PANJURLI
KARNATAKA/KERALA
19
TH
CENTURY
Brass
15.5 in (39.5 cm) wide
$ 6,155 ‒ 9,235
Rs 4,00,000 ‒ 6,00,000
NON‒EXPORTABLE REGISTERED ANTIQUITY
PROVENANCE:
From a Distinguished Family Collection, New Delhi
For a similar Panjurli mask exhibited at the Lowe Art
Museum, refer to Sasha Altaf,
Change and Continuity: Folk
and Tribal Art of India
, Miami: Lowe Art Museum, 2004,
p. 38, fig. 59 (illustrated) and Leo S Figiel,
Ritual Bronzes
of Maharashtra and Karnataka
, 2007, p. 122, fig. 14‒119
A Panjurli
theyyam
ritual procession in the Kasaragod district of Kerala. The performer
wears a metal boar mask and is wheeled around on a wooden boar by devotees.
Source: Wikimedia Commons