Topeng Turis (Tourist)

Mask Id:
181
Name:   
Topeng Turis (Tourist)
Country: 
Indonesia
Location:
Bali
Region:   
Group:
Mask Makers:
Professional Mask Carvers from all castes, I Made Hartawan
Material Used:
Wood (Alstonia Scholaris),Goat hair,Ground pigment
Length:  
14 cm
Breadth:
14 cm
 
Region  Group    
Description:

One of the more recent masks to come into the topeng repertoire, this type of mask was first used to portray the Dutch generals in dramatizations of the 1906 puputan of the Badung Court, in which the entire royal retinue shocked the advancing Dutch army by publicly committing suicide with their ancestral swords (kris). Now this mask is more commonly used to represent a bumbling Western tourist who unwittingly stumbles into the nexus of past and present that provides the locus for topeng, Another version, recently made popular by Ida Bagus Anom, features a haughty, upturned nose.

 

Topeng Turis (Tourist)