Women in music and dance

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Title

Female dancers and musicians

Subject

Women dancers
Stone carving--Anuradhapura Archaeological Museum (Sri Lanka)
Hindu art

Description

At the Anuradhapura Archaeological Museum is this stone frieze, of female dancers. This relief carving probably adorned a Hindu shrine of the late Polonnaruva period.

Creator

Sirima Kiribamune

Source

Colombo National Museum, Sri Lanka

Date

ca. 12th century A.D.
Period of study: 1986-1987
Version: 01/12/2012

Contributor

Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Technical Officer: Wijesinghe, Lalith
Technical Assistant: Jayasundare, Subhashini
Photographer: Madanayake, I.S.
International Center for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, Colombo

Rights

All rights reserved by International Center for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka.

Relation

Forms part of Photographic documentation of Women as depicted in early Sri Lankan sculpture and painting / Slide in present collection

Format

JPEG 2000

Language

eng

Type

image

Identifier

PDWESLSP.S.110

Coverage

ce

Citation

Sirima Kiribamune, "Female dancers and musicians," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #12607, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/12607 (accessed March 29, 2024).

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