FMNH 121174.nosub[1]

  • EX2015 1a 121174  Reference Image
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [written in blue] Ind | Country: China. [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 54B-25/01c | Locality: Peking. | People: Chinese. Stock. | Name: Painting on coarse brown silk repr.the six - armed Mahakala in green, with two lateral faces in blue & brown. Attributes; flaming pagoda, bow, spear wound around by tiger's tail, sword, arrow & cudgel. Two crouching devils on the sides, & a female goddess with 3 faces ( his cakti ) | Collection: Mrs, T. B. Blackstone Expedition, Berthold Laufer, Collector 1908=1910. | Notes: below; The whole surrounded by flames, above a Budhisatva. King period. | Width | Length | Height | Price 3.80 Mex. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 121174 | ENT | 1481 | Acc. 1114 |
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Catalog Number: 121174.nosub[1]
Description: painting
Materials: pigment, silk
Cultural Attribution: Han Chinese
Time Period: Ming
Accession Number: [1114] Blackstone Chinese and Tibetan Expedition - 1908-1910 (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1910
City/Town: Beijing - Peking
Collector/Source: Blackstone Chinese and Tibetan Expedition - 1908-1910, Berthold Laufer : Field Museum of Natural History
EMu IRN: 1022119
GUID: 653f41df-09f6-45f5-8fc4-8d6dd039c2ac

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