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Title: Worshipper and His God, Bairat, India, ca.1901
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1901
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
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Description: “The Worshipper and his god. The stone is supposed to look like an Elephant’s head – it is worshipped as Ganesh [Ganesha]. Near Bairat.” View of large stone being prayed to by man. Ganesh [Ganesha] is a Hindu deity commonly depicted as having the head of an elephant. ❧ United Free Church of Scotland photographs from the Rajputana mission.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 14.6 x 19.9 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75648632-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79198
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75648632-1.jpg
Subject: Elephants
Hinduism
Stone (rock)
Worship
Time Period: circa 1901
Place: Asia
Bairat
India
Rājasthān
Source: Acc.7548/F/11 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75648630 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs from the Rajputana mission, 1901
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