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Overview

Rangda is a powerful figure in Balinese ritual performance, often opposed to Barong. The Second Face museum identifies its 2012 mask as Rangda Ing Girah, the widow associated with Calonarang, and describes her vengeance after the refusal of a marriage for her daughter. It also stresses that the mask can be a sacred, protective temple object, even while the performed character leads harmful witch forces.

The Museum Nasional Indonesia describes a 1934 mask through a continuing balance of opposed forces rather than their permanent elimination. A separate UBC mask has a dark-red face, bulging eyes, long teeth and a decorated projecting tongue. UBC presents the proposed connection to the historical queen Mahendradatta as a hypothesis. These descriptions preserve object-specific appearances and differing custodial interpretations rather than treating every Rangda representation as identical.

Ritual maskWitch figureProjecting tongue in named maskOpposition to BarongSacred protective associations
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Origins & earliest records

Balinese ritual and performance beings; named regional witness

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Records & interpretation

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Selected bibliography

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    Rangda masks and Calonarang performance

    Second Face Mask Museum; Museum Nasional Indonesia; UBC Museum of Anthropology · 2012

    Second Face ASID015 (2012); Museum Nasional mask 1934; UBC 1249/1 (1900–1983); date belongs to identified edition/object, not tradition origin.

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Rangda masks and Calonarang performance

Balinese ritual and performance beings. Second Face ASID015 (2012); Museum Nasional mask 1934; UBC 1249/1 (1900–1983)

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References

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  1. Custodial cultural recordSecond Face Rangda ASID015Research access: 2026-10-05
  2. Custodial cultural recordMuseum Nasional Rangda mask 1934Research access: 2026-10-05
  3. Custodial cultural recordUBC Rangda mask 1249/1Research access: 2026-10-05

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