Djanger dancer
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, Leather
Measurements
238 x 230 x 110 mm
Place of origin
Bali
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338108
Summary
Carved wooden head of a Djanger dancer from Bali. Large ear plugs, Subang, only worn by unmarried girls. Elaborate, cared , floral headdress. No eye or nose holes. Stained dark brown. Two leather hangers inside headdress. In notebook no.4, page 47 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Seraphim 164. Unpainted masks life size. Two heads of DJANGA dancers, one with this gold headress with its quivering blooms. (The large SUBANG = Ear plugs are only worn by unmarried girls.)'
Provenance
CPW item 164 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 47