Shiva

Mask Id:
45
Name:   
Shiva
Country: 
India
Location:
Purulia
Region:   
Group:
Mask Makers:
Sutradharas of Chorida, the professional maskmakers
Material Used:
Clay,Cloth,Paper,coloring material
Length:  
6.5 in
Breadth:
6.5 in
 
Region  Group  
Description:

Face of Shiva with all the characteristic feature. Facial features demarcated by prominent eyes, broad forehead, small third eye in the centre of the forehead, straight prominent nose, fine lips, prominent chin shapely cheek, three blue parallel curved lines in the middle of the forehead. Body colour whitish mingled with reddish tinge. Head covered by clotted hair arranged in the form of a hill enclosing a lady (ganga) at the top i.e., at the free end. A hooded snake is there round this raised clotted hair. A row of thirteen snakes are there in the back of the head arranged in such a way so as to form a background covering.

 

Shiva