The Maru Sanniya Mask is a striking representation from Sri Lanka’s traditional Sanni Yakuma ritual, symbolizing death or terminal illness. Vividly hand-painted, the mask features a bold black base with fiery yellow and red patterns, intense round eyes, and a wide red mouth filled with sharp white teeth—emphasizing its fearsome, spiritual presence. Maru 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.
