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Living masks of the Newars: The itinerant masked dances of the Kathmandu Valley

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Fig. 2.
Goddess Mahālakshmī on her lion singha, "vehicule", vāhana. The coat of the lion is made out of a mixture of straw and jute.
1931.

© Penelope Chetwode