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  Himalayan Object 1   This impressive copper repousse pot would have been used during the Indra Jatra festival within the Newar Temple households, or guthis of Kathmandu, to distribute wine. There is a thin pipe coming out of the mouth in order to pour the wine. This large pot has the face of a bhairava, a wrathful deity patterned on it. The figure has an elaborate crown with skulls and a miniature face around the brow, snakes around his neck, a moustache and flaming eyebrows.

OBJECT 1: Code H3
Newar, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
19th Century,
height 73cm

 

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