Antique/Vintage Rangda Mask on Museum Stand, Indonesia, Bali (1310)

Description

The subject of this exceptional and important antique/vintage Balinese mask is Rangda, one of the two most sacred masks in every village mask collection and central to Balinese culture and lore. She is the chief demon-queen, the personification of evil, and the head of an army of witches and practitioners of black magic. As such, she is presented as evil, frightening, and threatening with two upper fangs, two lower fangs now missing, protruding scary teeth, pointed jagged elements surrounding her entire face, large menacing eyes, and wide-open nostrils with most of it in painted in a deep red that for a Balinese mask means bold, easy to anger, hot-headed, strong, and possibly evil and dangerous. This mask was probably retired from use when the two lower fangs on the mask were lost.

A unique addition to any mask collection, it was featured in the Spiderman 2002 movie along with the Jatayu Mask (#1208) and the Dyak Tribal Hudoq Ancestor Mask (#1300) in the collection of the Green Goblin and comes with on a museum quality metal stand.

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