Icon; wood, painted; Virgin Mary and Christ child; child holds globe in left hand; figure in upper right and left corners; old worm damage; height 42; width 33.5 centimeters; Balkans area attributed
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley), Eugen Neuhaus, Older University Collections, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Balkan states
Collector:
Eugen Neuhaus
Collection date:
before 1930
Person depicted:
Jesus Christ (founder of Christianity) and Mary (mother of Jesus)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Icons (devotional images)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)