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    "localId": "1092",
    "label": "Offering Tangka of Protector Deity Palden Remati",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.333"
}

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    "id": "1092",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.333",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Offering Tangka of Protector Deity Palden Remati",
    "description": "Palden Remati, a form of the female protector Lhamo, is depicted entirely with symbols: a club, a halo of flames, and a blood-filled skull cup (that of a child born from an incestuous union, the kind of skull considered to have the greatest powers). In rituals, deities are invoked through words and with utensils. A tangka such as this one suggests similar beliefs.",
    "provenance": "Palden Dorje, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, September 1995, by purchase.",
    "date": "18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.333",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings",
        "tangkas",
        "tankas",
        "thangkas",
        "thankas"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_F.124_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 104.1,
            "height": 67.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 41 x W: 26 3/4 in. (104.1 x 67.9 cm); Framed H: 41 1/4 × W: 27 1/4 in. (104.78 × 69.22 cm)"
}

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    "med": "embroidery on silk",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "6238"
    ],
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        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2071"
    ]
}

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