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LicenseCarved wooden votive offering
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Carved wooden votive offering
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Carved wooden votive offering, crudely executed in anthropomorphic form, possibly female, offered to Mata, Goddess of smallpox, during famine, Nizam's dominions, Hyderabad, India, 1898-1899; secured to long wooden base along with three other statues, see A79209 -A79211
Details
- Category:
- Asian Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A79208
- Materials:
- complete and wood (unidentified)
- Measurements:
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overall: 155 mm x 36 mm x 23 mm, .051 kg
- type:
- votive offering
- credit:
- Luxmore
