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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00000099/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Pegu Meh Daw [bookmark]
- Abbreviated Title:
- Royal Mother of Pegu [bookmark]
- Creator:
- Brunei Gallery
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publisher:
- SOAS, University of London
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 bookmark
Subjects
- Subjects / Keywords:
- Statues ( LCSH )
Moore, Elizabeth H. ( LCNAF )
- Spatial Coverage:
- Asia -- Myanmar -- Bago Division -- Bago
- Coordinates:
- 17.333333 x 96.483333
Notes
- Abstract:
- Pegu Meh Daw ("Royal Mother of Pegu"). Myanmar (Burma), circa 1920. This gilded teakwood sculpture depicts a popular female that or spirit figure that takes its name from Pegu (now Bago), a town 70 km east of Yangon. She is popular throughout Lower Myanmar and is one of the official "Thirty-Seven Nats" of that region. She is also known as Lady Buffalo, referring to her headdress representing a buffalo head with two horns. H76 x W24 cm. SOASAW 2014.0261.29. Gift of Elizabeth Moore, 2014. THE BRUNEI GALLERY
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS, University of London
- Rights Management:
 This item is licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial License. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms.
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