Votive offering to goddess Mata

Made:
1898-1899 in Hyderabad
Carved wooden votive offering Carved wooden votive offering

Creative Commons LicenseThis image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print 

Buy

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Creative Commons LicenseThis image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print 

Buy

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Carved wooden votive offering
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Carved wooden votive offering
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Carved wooden votive offering, crudely executed in the form of a female(?), with peg to fit in base, offering to Mata, Goddess of smallpox, during the 1898-1899 famine, Nizam's dominions, Hyderabad, India, 1898-1899; secured to long wooden display base along with three other statues, see A79208-A79210

Details

Category:
Asian Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A79211
Materials:
wood (unidentified) and complete
Measurements:
overall: 110 mm x 29 mm x 20 mm, .032 kg
type:
votive offering
credit:
Luxmore