prints (ritual & belief: representations)

Nag Panch print. Red pigment print depicting eight serpents forming a pattern. Sun at right top corner, bird at left top corner, fish at bottom right, star and creature at bottom...

Nag Panch print. Brown pigment print depicting eight serpents forming a pattern. Sun at right top corner, bird at left top corner, fish at bottom right, star and creature at bott...

Framed and glazed painting of a Chinese Daoist deity, Wong Tai Sin or 'Wong (Huang) Cho Ping', as a mortal. He is wearing a blue robe and hat, holding a fly whisk, and sitting cros...

Polychrome painting on glass depicting Shiva dancing, as Siva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance and Destruction. In his upper right hand is an hourglass-shaped drum. The second right han...

Painting of a chorten, or Tibetan stupa, with nine rings, sun and moon symbols and prayer flags, with a background of hills and plains....

Temple banner depicting the 'Death of Buddha' , or parinirvana, with all the creatures assembled to grieve, and his mother, Maya, descending at top right. Backed onto silk with flo...

Episodic painting about the White Old Man. In the centre he wields a large curved sword as he fights a dragon from horseback. He is bareheaded, bald, with a long grey beard, dresse...

Wooden sculpture in the form of a crocodile painted with white and red color. Collected some time during the period 1913-14.Perhaps it is a totem animal. In the Sepik region, croco...