Native Name | Chhapa |
Object Number | 29-221-26.20 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Indian |
Provenience | India | Varanasi |
Period | 19th Century |
Date Made | 19th Century |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Metal |
Iconography | Vishnu | Feet |
Description | One of a set of body stamps (chhapa) with which to print caste marks on the foreheads of a Hindu devotee each morning after praying and bathing in the ganges. In the shape of a conch shell. |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 92-1-263A - Found in Collection Number | 26 - Sommerville Number |
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