Ambalangoda
Ambalangoda
Ambalangoda is a coastal town in Galle District, Southern Province of Sri Lanka. Governed by the Ambalangoda Urban Council, the city is famous for its ancient demon masks and devil dancers. There are many mask museums here that can be visited.
The traditional masks are carved from light-colored balsa such as Kaduru wood (Nux vomica). Kaduru trees grow in the swampy land bordering rice fields. The wood is smoke-dried for a week in preparation. The hand-carved and hand-painted masks in traditional dance dramas are vibrant and colorful. Colorful and vibrant, the Raksha Kolama (Demon Dance) Naga Raksha (Cobra Demon) Mask consists of a fierce face with bulging, glaring, and staring eyes, a bloodthirsty, carnivorous tongue, emerging from a broad, armored, and hilt-to-the-hilt armed mouth and armed with a set of tooth-like teeth and a set of cobra hoods.
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