figure (ritual & belief: representations)

Marble carved figure of Brahma, with four bearded faces; three toward the front and one looking to the rear. He is seated on a pedestal in front of an archway decorated with painted pink flowers. There is a very small figure of a bull carved at the base of the pedestal.

The attributes are difficult to identify, only mala (rosary) in his lower right hand is obvious. It is made for tourists not for ritual.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
164c
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 135 mm x 90 mm x 37 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
marble; paint
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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