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1889.29.58

Carved wooden figure with cymbals on the feet. [ZM 12/8/2004]

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1889.29.58

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Collection type
Object
Description
Carved wooden figure with cymbals on the feet. [ZM 12/8/2004]
Cultural groups
Burman
Person
Field collector Richard Carnac Temple
PRM source Richard Carnac Temple
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1889
Date collected
By 1889
Acquisition information
Donated: 1889
Materials and processes
Material Teak Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Height: max 980 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 1889.29.58
Associated publications
Illustrated in colour on page 5 of Particularly Ravishing Morsels: Recipes from Around the World Inspired by the Collections, by The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum (no place [Oxford], no publisher [Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum], no date [2007]). It is used to illustrate a recipe for 'Burmese Tomato Salad' by Vicky Bowman and is captioned 'Lawkanat, carved Buddhist deity, Burma. 1889.29.58.'. [El.B 29/04/2008] Illustrated in colour on page 33 of Pitt Rivers Museum: An Introduction, by Julia Cousins (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2004). Caption (same page) reads: 'Formerly thought to be a representation of Thagya Min, king of the devas (or benevolent spirits) and of Burma's 37 nats (further kinds of spirits), the figure has recently been identified as a representation of Lawkanat (also Lokanat, Lokantha) a Burmanized form of the Buddhist bodhisattva (or divinity) Avalokiteshvara.' [JN 27/9/2004; JC 8 10 2004] Illustrated in colour on page 44 of The Pitt Rivers Museum: A World Within, by Michael O’Hanlon (London: Scala, 2014). Caption (page 45) reads: ‘28 (opposite) Wooden figure of the deity Lawkanat; one of the hundreds of artefacts accepted into the collections from just one of many donors (see also Fig. 28). Burma Height 980 mm collected and donated by Captain R.C. Temple 1889.29.58’ [MJD (Verve) 18/2/2016]

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