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Gallery installation photographs from 'Tell the Whole Story from Beginning to End': The Ramayana in Indian Painting

Gallery installation photographs from 'Tell the Whole Story from Beginning to End': The Ramayana in Indian Painting

Gallery installation photographs from 'Tell the Whole Story from Beginning to End': The Ramayana in Indian Painting

Gallery installation photographs from 'Tell the Whole Story from Beginning to End': The Ramayana in Indian Painting

Gallery installation photographs from 'Tell the Whole Story from Beginning to End': The Ramayana in Indian Painting

This bronze bowl is composed of a short flaring neck and lobed body. The inside of the bowl is decorated with two rearing ibexes in repoussé within a roundel framed by three concentric circles of varying width. The musculature of the ibexes and their…

This figure represents "Mami Wata," the pidgin English term for "Mother of Water," a water spirit who has enjoyed a wide following in Central Africa, West Africa, and regions of the African Diaspora. It was carved by an Ibibio artist living in…

This figure represents "Mami Wata," the pidgin English term for "Mother of Water," a water spirit who has enjoyed a wide following in Central Africa, West Africa, and regions of the African Diaspora. It was carved by an Ibibio artist living in…

This coffin assemblage belongs to Taosiris who was a priestess of Osiris in Akhmim (ancient Egyptian name Ipu). She was the daughter of Nesmin and his wife Taamun. The assemblage consists of a coffin lid and base, cartonnage mummy trappings, and a…