Painted black wooden mask with black face and bulbous eyes. Face has a wide grimace with thick red lips, full teeth with elongated insisors which hang down on both sides of the chin.

Painted wooden mask with flesh-coloured complexion and a furrowed brow. Strips of brown fur are nailed in place for the eyebrows and mustache. Bottom of mask ends at the jaw.

Multiple pages of Sinhala script etched into palm leaves between wooden covers painted with red and yellow leaf designs. Book is joined together by a long string that goes through a hole at one end of the book. There is a clear glass bead at one end of the string.

Pages of script written on palm leaf. The pages are joined by a string that goes through a hole in the middle of the pages and then wraps around the book with a small circular wood knob. Two smaller notes are also wrapped with the book. The book is part a; parts b-c are loose pieces of leaf with script.

High-waisted, long-sleeved, red cotton top with four tie closures down the back. White ruffles and a black stripe around both cuffs. Bands of white and black stripes run down the tops of the sleeves and down the front and back on either side of the neckline.

Triangular shaped headdress made of cotton and synthetic fabric. The sides are dark blue while the middle section is orange with a scalloped edge. Almost the entire surface is decorated with clear, grey and gold coloured beads as well as green and gold sequins. There are smaller sections of floral fabric detailing. The underside is lined with an orange and blue fabric detailed with a line and floral pattern on a cream ground. The ends have a brown fibre twine tie.

Thirty-two plastic beads strung on two pieces of thread, knotted at ends. A sequence of a round, yellow bead followed by a teardrop-shaped white bead, and spherical white bead repeats six times on one side. Next there is a purple spherical bead, a teardrop-shaped metallic bead, a spherical dark grey bead, red bead and pink bead, and then the strand ends in a mixed combination of the yellow spherical, white spherical and teardrop-shaped white beads.

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: head with yellow truban (part b) fits into body clothed in a yellow tunic and off-white skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. The face is painted brown with a black moustache and black hair.

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet (Sanni or disease demon dancer character): head with long fibrous hair, moustache and beard (part b) fits into body clothed in a mottled blue and grey shirt and a red and pink knee-length skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. Figure has a blue-purple face with black painted eyebrows, a red mouth, and bulging, bulbous eyes. Figure has bare blue-purple feet and two blue-purple hands with curled fingers. Puppet is attached to several thin black cords tied to a plain wooden stick.

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet (Prince character): head (part b) fits into body with tunic and skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs, with yellow shoes. The figure has short, painted black hair, and is wearing a red tunic with silver designs at neck, hem, cuffs, and on chest. The skirt is multicoloured, semi-transparent material.