Burmese dancing figure
| Accession Nr.: | 58.190.1 |
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| Type: | sculpture; wooden sculpture; religious or cult object; carving |
| Date of production: |
19th century
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This figure, which may represent a dancing figure, is a figure with a particular hand posture (perhaps nat - a god or demigod figure in Burmese religious practice, a remnant of pre-Buddhist spiritual beliefs still alive today. This assumption is reinforced by the foot in motion. Burmese sculpture often depicts a few pieces, and the present object is a pair of pieces under inventory number 58.189.
