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Maker(s):Unknown
Title:Mahaseya Dagoba at Mahintate, Ceylon.
Date Made:circa late 1890's
Type:Photograph
Materials:platinum print on paper
Place Made:Sri Lanka
Measurements:mount: 16 x 13 5/8 in.; 40.64 x 34.6075 cm; image: 11 x 9 1/8 in.; 27.94 x 23.1775 cm
Narrative Inscription:  inscription on mount on verso: Mahaseya Dagoba at Mahintate, Ceylon.
Accession Number:  SC 1982.38.86
Credit Line:Purchased with Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund, with funds given in memory of Nancy Newhall (Nancy Parker, class of 1930) and in honor of Beaumont Newhall, and with funds given in honor of Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
1982_38_86.jpg

Description:
white dome; buddhism; religious sacred structure; shrine; surrounded by trees

Subjects:
Men; Animals; Water

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