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Collected By: Waterfield
Region: Burma, South-East Asia
Description: Painting on cloth from Burma. Offerings to the Buddha, including an elephant offering bunches of bananas. The subject emphasises the importance of Buddhist monks (who also acted as teachers and doctors) of the Theravada tradition to the people of Burma, and the need to support them with alms. Collected before 1945.
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