Statuette

89-13-6

From: Cambodia

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 89-13-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Khmer
Provenience Cambodia
Date Made -1989
Section Asian
Materials Bronze
Iconography Monkey | Bovine | Hanuman? | Buffalo?
Description

Bronze monkey figurine grasping the head of a bovine with both hands and one foot. Cloth tucked up in back side of figure in traditional Khmer fashion possibly Hanuman wrestling with a buffalo. Mounted on wood base.

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Lyons, Keeper of the Asian Collections, University Museum, 1989

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