plaque, rectangular of male figure astride camel; ceramic, painted & glazed; high relief; 58 cm length; 36 cm width
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
Verbatim coll. place:
Asia, India, Rajasthan, Udaipur district
Collector:
Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
Collection date:
March 1969
Materials:
Aluminum (metal), Glaze (coating by location), Silver (metal), and Terracotta (clay material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plaques (flat objects)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
November 11, 1970
Context of use:
*placed in shrine for daily worship by men and women, esp. of potter caste; *field notes incorrectly describe this as a statue of the goddess Rahda; Caption from India exh. (1975): "Rewari Dev, a tribal deity, on his vehicle, a camel. The Bhil tribal people of the Mewar region of Rajasthan worship him along with other deities, for he has no shrine of his own." Made by men of the potter caste.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 58 centimeters and width 36 centimeters
Loans:
S1971-1972 #10: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Michael J. Harner (July 28, 1971–July 28, 1971)