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Bheetha Sanniya Mask is a striking representation from Sri Lanka’s traditional Sanni Yakuma ritual, symbolizing Spirit related insanity( Height 15cm ).
Bheetha Sanniya Mask is a striking representation from Sri Lanka’s traditional Sanni Yakuma ritual, symbolizing Spirit related insanity. Symptoms of this illness arising out of fear are temporary insanity, talking all kinds of nonsense, imagining that some one is following him, frequently imagining that darkness has fallen, lack of appetite for food, and diarrhea.Bheetha Sanniya Mask is used for its purpose of healing and blessing through a performance in which 18 kinds of maladies, inflicted by devils, are purged from the human body.
*1950s-1960s era Sir Lankan, culturally used wooden masks.
*A character of the 18 Sanni masks group.
*A polychrome wooden disease mask used for healing rituals.
*Masks play important roles in religious, healing and exorcism rituals.
Size: Height 15cm