Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: 'Be Moved... Journeys of Body and Mind' (MA Museology students' exhibition), 08/06/1999 - 11/07/1999, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich. On loan from 02/06/1999, returned 13/07/1999.
Event Date 29/9/1995
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (CMS Description)
Set of playing card size paintings of the ten avatars of Vishnu, made in or near the pilgrimage town of Puri with its Jagannath temple. Framed for exhibition in 1999.
Event Date 29/9/1995
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Amendments / updates)
'This record originally contained all the information for the objects 1978.168 A-J. They have all now been split and given their own record, as they are all very different visually'.
Event Date 31/10/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Painting of Varaha, the 3rd avatar of Vishnu (the boar). He is depicted with the head of a boar, and green skin. He has four hands, which hold a chakra wheel, a conch shell and a lotus blossom. He is adorned with jewellery and wears an elaborate headdress on his head. He wears gold coloured trousers and a gold scarf around his shoulders. The painting is surrounded with a yellow and red border.
Event Date 31/10/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin