Celestial Woman with a Bell
Unidentified maker, Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan, India
11th-12th century
Pink sandstone
Overall: 20 in. (50.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936
S.967.109
Geography
Place Made: India, South Asia, Asia
Period
1000-1400
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact
Research Area
Asia
On view
Course History
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2020
COCO 26.01, What's in Your Toolbox?, Heidi Denzel and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2022
COCO 26.01, What's in Your Toolbox?, Heidi Denzel and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2022
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Anthropology, Charis Ford Morrison Boke, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Ancient and Premodern Global Cultures, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019.
Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.
Global Cultures at the Hood: Ancient to Premodern, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26. 2019.
Provenance
Collected by David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), New York, New York, date unknown; given to present collection, 1967.
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