Description (CMS Description)
Clay horse with rider, coated in red water paint. Broken during transport, a few pieces are missing, but generally intact; Fair; Incomplete
Event Date 2/5/1988
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Used as offering to mountain spirit, Bhakar Baosi; Collected by: Unnithan.Maya in 1987
Event Date 2/5/1988
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: 'Crafting Culture: Pattamadai Mats from South India'. Curated by Dr Soumhya Venkatesan, March 2002 - December 2003, Andrews Gallery, CUMAA.
Event Date 3/2002
Author: Mark Elliott

Description (CMS Description)
Clay horse
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2016.3528 | Remedial
Event Date 30/8/2016
Author: Rachel Howie

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2017.2 | Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia
Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Display)
'Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia' 07/03/2017 - 22/04/2018 MAA exhibition label text reads:

Bhil Ancestors

Monuments placed in the landscape across India are acts of devotion to gods, memorials to ancestors and folk heroes, and guardians for the living. These three sculptures come from three separate communities generally referred to under the term ‘Bhil’, and from three very different kinds of interaction over more than a century: an enthusiastic military ethnographer in 1912, an Indian anthropologist in 1987, and an art commission following a project to share photographs between 2012 and 2016.

2. Horse and rider (ghoda)

Every Girasia village has an open air shrine to the mountain deity: a platform crowded with terracotta horses all facing one direction, like a cavalry formation. The horses are votive offerings to the god in return for the granting of a request. Such figures are common across Bhil communities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh as well as Rajasthan.

Girasia. Sirohi, Rajasthan
Collected by Maya Unnithan, 1987
1988.206


Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: remke Velden

Context (Other)
According to information previously in the 'Source Year' field, The object entered the museum on the 25th of April 1988.
Event Date 16/4/2018
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
Ghoda. Figure of a horse and rider in clay, painted red. Made as a votive offering at an open air shrine to the mountain deity, asking for aid from the god. Broken during transport, a few pieces are missing, but generally intact.
Event Date 9/7/2025
Author: Mark Elliott