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Crocodile Figure (Taki)
View through The Met
Wood paint, Korewori River region
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller 1969
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sculpture, wood sculpture, wood
sculpture, wood sculpture, wood
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...
Vishnu Saves Gajendra, the Elephant King, from the Crocodile Demon (painting, recto), illustration of the Gajendra Moksha (The Liberation of the Elephant King Gajendra) chapter from the Bhagavata Purana
Vishnu Saves Gajendra, the Elephant King, from the Crocodile Demon (painting, recto), illustration of the Gajendra Moksha (The Liberation of the Elephant King Gajendra) chapter from the Bhagavata Purana
The painting depicts Vishnu slaying a monster to free the embattled King of the Elephants. Vishnu came down to earth to protect Gajendra, the elephant king, from the clutches of a ...
figure, brass figure, brass
figure, brass figure, brass
According to the catalogue general: Brass figure. The depicting crocodile.
General information on brass figures
Moulded in lost form (à cire perdue). A wax model was coated with...