ID: 700008460 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008460	Record Type: Movable Work

The Hindu Goddess Kali (carving (visual work); unknown Indian carver, ca. 17th century; ca. 17th century)

Note: Wooden seventeenth-century sculpture of The Hindu Goddess Kali from the modern Indian state of Kerala. It is exceptional in the preservation of its projecting symbolic attributes held in the goddess’ eight hands and in the crispness of the figure’s elaborate ornamentation. (Stephen Markel, The Harry and Yvonne Lenart Curator and Department Head of South and Southeast Asian Art).

Titles:

The Hindu Goddess Kali (preferred,C,U,D,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

carving (visual work) [300047203] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, sculpture (visual works), <sculpture by technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 17th century

Creator Display:

unknown Indian carver, ca. 17th century [preferred,VP]

creator unknown Indian (Indian cultural designation) [500125241]

Locations:

Creation: Kerala [7575353] Tamilnadu (state), India (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500217563] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: M.2011.5

Credit Line: Gift of Dr. S. Sanford and Mrs. Charlene S. Kornblum

Display Materials: wood with traces of paint

	wood (plant material) [300011914]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>)

	paint (coating) [300015029]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

Dimensions: 41 x 25 x 7 in. (104.14 x 63.5 x 17.78 cm)

Cultures:

Indian (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	goddess [300343852]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, deities) (AAT)

	Kali [901000890]
	.....((Hindu characters, Hindu iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
The Hindu Goddess Kali	........ [VP]
	........ Los Angeles County Museum of Art online (2002) M.2011.5

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Los Angeles County Museum of Art online (2002) M.2011.5