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Description: | Wooden figure, patung, of Dewa Siwa, carved and painted in the round. The figure is seated on a double lotus pedestal, the left leg folded under him, the left leg set down and pointed outwards. Two of the four arms extend upwards, two held at the lower sides. Attributes in each hand are lower left a holy water container, lower right a rosary, upper left a lotus flower, upper right a fly whisk. He wears a skirt cloth with a long fold at the front, or kancut, as well as a tall crown, a necklace, a band which runs right round below the necklace across the upper arms and along the back, epaulettes, arm bands and wristlets, a girdle, further decorative elements suspended from a belt and an anklet. Body parts painted cream, costume elements chiefly brownish red, with moustache eyes and eyebrows in black and red mouth. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | figures (ritual & belief: representations) | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-195017 |
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