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Description: | One hundred and nineteen circular painted Ganjifa playing cards with the suits based on the avatars of Vishnu; the complete set should be 120. There are ten suits, with two higher cards in each set, depicting Vishnu's avatars. The rest of the cards in each suit depict an attribute in numbers of one to ten. Each set is also in a different colour.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 11.2.63/29iii | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | paper cardboard paint playing cards Family and Home | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-133799 | Go to resource |
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