Statue "Avalokitesvara"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jan 1987
label: Collection Date
content: Ca. 1945
name: label: Collector
content: Warren P. Scott
label: Donor Name
content: Warren P. Scott
notes: label: Notes
content: SINO-TIBETAN SEATED STATUE OF "AVALOKITESVARA" WITH EIGHT ARMS AND SEATED ON LOTUS THRONE. TENTH CENTURY OBJECT OF WORSHIP (RELIGIOUS OBJECT). THE MOST POPULAR DIVINITY IN THE BUDDHIST PANTHEON AND IN TIBET ALL THE DALAI LAMAS BELIEVED TO BE REINCARNATIONS OF THE AVALOKITESVARA CALLED "THE GODDESS OF MERCY".
label: Notes
content: ET25225 MAY BE THE BASE FOR E423740. THERE IS A PHOTO IN THE ACCESSION FILE THAT SHOWS THE STATUE SITTING ON A BASE SIMILAR TO THIS ITEM.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Dec 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: China / Tibet, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sino-Tibetan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 358177
label: USNM Number
content: E423740-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Statue
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 112 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 51 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 112 cm