Context (Field collection)
Collected by Dr Mark Elliot, Senior Curator for Anthropology (Asia, Africa and Europe) at MAA, on 15 April 2016. Purchased by the collector with a grant from the Art Fund. Bought from the Adivasi Kala Kasab (Adivasi Art Store), Vaacha: museum of voice, Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh, Chotaudepur, 391156, Gujarat.

Event Date 21/12/2016
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
Gond painting on canvas depicting the buffalo tree of life.
Event Date 21/12/2016
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:

Animals at the Tree of Life

This painting on canvas by a Gond artist known only as Dhaneswhari depicts three birds around a tree growing from the head of a buffalo. The Tree of Life is a common image in Gond art, sometimes growing from the horns of an antelope or deer and identified as the sacred saja tree, home of the gods.

Painted by Dhaneshwari, around 2015 Gond. Madhya Pradesh
Purchased with Art Fund support 2016.213

Event Date 22/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2017.2 | Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia
Event Date 7/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden