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Carved wooden mask, topeng tua, for topeng performance. Face painted pink, with red lips and inside upper eyelid and inside nostrils. Black inside lower eyelid and in wrinkles at side of mouth and eyes, and at ends of eyebrows. White haired goatskin representing eyebrows and moustache and along edge of upper part of mask. Apertures beneath eyes and in nostrils. Rubber strap affixed at both sides at the rear. Signed inside.
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