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- Title
- Elephant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Accession Number
- 1990/1.179
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 9.19374
- Primary Keywords
- elephants
- Title
- Ganesh (Elephant God)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A relief of the elephant god, Ganesh. He has the head of an elephant with the body of a man. He is seated inside of an arch.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.162
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 9.09039
- Primary Keywords
- elephants
- terracottas
- Title
- Vajri
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.54
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 9.09039
- Primary Keywords
- elephants
- lions
- Title
- Other Laws for the People (Animal Folly), from "Los Disparates" (also known as "Los Proverbios"
- Artist
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Artist Life Dates
- 1746-1828
- Century
- 19th Century
- Object Creation Date
- 1877
- Accession Number
- 1990/2.3
- Medium and Support
- etching and aquatint with drypoint on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.09039
- Primary Keywords
- elephants
- males
- Title
- Elephant and Mahout Lamp
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.59
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 9.09039
- Primary Keywords
- elephants
- lamp
- Title
- Other Laws for the People (Animal Folly), from 'Los Disparates'
- Artist
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Artist Life Dates
- 1746-1828
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1816
- Accession Number
- 1996/1.59
- Medium and Support
- etching and aquatint with drypoint on thick cream laid paper
- relevance
- rank 9.09039
- Primary Keywords
- elephants
- figures
- Title
- Elephant
- Artist
- Edward Kemeys
- Artist Life Dates
- 1843-1907
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1863-1907
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.135
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 8.98934
- Primary Keywords
- elephants
- mammals
- standing
- Title
- Elephant Man with Traveling European Circus, South Lyon, Michigan
- Artist
- D. James Galbraith
- Physical Description
- An elephant trainer in a hat and jacket standing in the center of the image and there are elephants behind him lined up.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1930 - 2002)
- Object Creation Date
- 1972
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.239
- Medium and Support
- vintage gelatin silver print on paper, laid down on board
- relevance
- rank 8.98934
- Primary Keywords
- circuses
- elephants
- men
- Title
- Ganesha, seated on a double lotus throne
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Indonesia, Java
- Physical Description
- Ganesha is shown here seated on a double lotus throne, in a royal posture with the soles of his feet together. He has four arms, and holds two of his attributes in the rear pair: an ax and a rosary. His trunk curls down across his rotund belly to reach for a bowl of sweets that rests in his left forward arm. The cobra slung across his shoulder, now hard to make out because of the centuries of wear of the stone, indicates Ganesha's lineage as the son of the Shiva, in his aspect as the great ascetic. Almost 27 inches high, this sculpture of the Hindu god Ganesha is carved of andesite, a volcanic stone common to the island of Java in Indonesia. Andesite is a soft stone and erodes easily, which is why the carving is no longer crisp.
- Century
- 11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 11th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/2.56
- Medium and Support
- andesite (volcanic stone)
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- hinduism
- stone
- Title
- Hat for an Elephant Costume
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Bamileke
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.344
- Medium and Support
- cloth with multi-colored beadwork
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- costume
- elephants
- flowers (plants)
- Title
- Ganesha,
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 4th-6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 4th century - 6th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.281
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- ganesha
- hinduism
- Title
- Rustam Slays the White Elephant, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
- Artist
- Shiraz and Timurid Schools
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1460
- Accession Number
- 1963/1.44
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- birds
- elephants
- maces
- shahnama
- Title
- Ganesha
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.288
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- ganesha
- hinduism
- Title
- From Northern India, figure of seated Ganesha on perforated cylinder (armature of wheeled toy deity).
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 4th-6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 4th century - 6th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.280
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- ganesha
- hinduism
- Title
- Elephant Skull (plate XI, 'Elephant Skull Album'), ii/ii (?)
- Artist
- Henry Moore
- Artist Life Dates
- (Castleford, England, 7/30/1898 - 8/31/1986, Hertforshire, England)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1969
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.105
- Medium and Support
- etching on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- elephants
- skulls (skeleton components)
- Title
- Ganesha,
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 4th-6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 4th century - 6th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.282
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- ganesha
- hinduism
- Title
- Rustam Takes Prisoner the Khan of China, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
- Artist
- Shiraz and Timurid Schools
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1460
- Accession Number
- 1963/1.52
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.89051
- Primary Keywords
- battle
- elephants
- shahnama
- soldiers
- Title
- Ganesa
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 10th-11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 11th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.116
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 8.79383
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- ganesha
- hinduism
- seated
- Title
- Ganesha
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Accession Number
- 1990/1.175
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 8.79383
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- ganesha
- hinduism
- seated
![Iconography series: "Budha" [Mercury], elephant-headed goddess on a white bird; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1985-sl-2.138/1985_2.138.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;med=1;resnum=20;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_keywords1;select1=phrase;q1=elephants){kind=link}
- Title
- Iconography series: "Budha" [Mercury], elephant-headed goddess on a white bird
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.138
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.79383
- Primary Keywords
- birds
- deity
- elephants
- field
- trees
- Title
- Ganesha
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.256
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 8.79383
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- ganesha
- hinduism
- seated
- Title
- Fragment from a Markendeya Purana scroll: Vishnu on the pipal leaf
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northern Andhra Pradesh
- Physical Description
- The blue four-armed Vishnu is shown lying on a gigantic pipal leaf with his left leg crossed over his right leg; as his female consort gently strokes his leg, he awakens from a long sleep. Another woman fans him. From his navel sprouts a lotus, bearing the four-headed creator god, Brahma, and rishis or sages appear in the upper branches of the pipal tree. Vishnu has four arms carrying a discus and a conch in his back hands and the lower left arm is extended pointing towards the women at his feet while the lower right am is cross towards his stomach.
- The iconography is further compounded by the image in the lower register of a tortoise at the bottom of the ocean of milk, bearing a mountain on his back. The tortoise is in fact Kurma, another manifestation of Vishnu, supporting the cosmic axis. Elephants have gathered to pay homage to him, while in a small inset at right, a worshipper pays homage to Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma. A large red figure faces the scene to the right accompanied by small blue figures to his sides as if behind him. Two sages, one horse-headed, are to the upper right.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.306
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 8.79383
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- fish
- hinduism
- vishnu
- Title
- Iconography series: Princess mounted on an elephant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.136
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.79383
- Primary Keywords
- clouds
- elephants
- field
- prince
- trees
- Title
- Ganesa
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.115
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 8.79383
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- ganesha
- hinduism
- standing
- Title
- Bilvamangala series: Krishna Venerated by People and Animals (fol. no. 8)
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Physical Description
- Ink, watercolor and gold on paper. Central figure, Vishnu with devotees on his right and left. Male figures are located on the left side of Vishnu and the female figures on the right. The animals are depicted on the lower half of the portrait which goes with traditional hierarchical beliefs. The tiger is on the left and the elephant on the right.
- Century
- late 17th - early 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1700
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.111
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.69922
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- figures (illustrations)
- hinduism
- tigers
- Title
- Aurora
- Artist
- J.P. Meillier et Cie de Beautrain
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1795-1810
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.329
- Medium and Support
- silk
- relevance
- rank 8.69922
- Primary Keywords
- birds
- elephants
- figures
- textiles
- trees
- water
- Title
- Talhand Confronts His Brother Gav on the Battlefield, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
- Artist
- Shiraz and Timurid Schools
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1460
- Accession Number
- 1963/1.72
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold leaf on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.69922
- Primary Keywords
- battle
- elephants
- figures
- hills
- horses
- shahnama
- Title
- Temptation
- Artist
- Max Jacob
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.183
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.69922
- Primary Keywords
- boat
- cliffs
- cranes
- elephants
- snakes
- water
- Title
- Râmâyana series, folio 183 from the "Balakanda"
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1725
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.110
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.69922
- Primary Keywords
- buildings
- elephants
- horses
- pond
- seated
- standing
- Title
- Lakshmi lustrated by elephants (Gaja Lakshmi (Goddess))
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Bundi School
- Physical Description
- The white elephants, which draw the eye into the image, face toward the center leading the viewer to Lakshmi who is the central figure in the frame. The image is bordered by a red colored frame. And below the figures, in the background is a dark banded representing a pond.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.133
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.69922
- Primary Keywords
- bundi
- elephants
- goddesses
- india (nation)
- lotus
- Title
- Scene from the Life of the Buddha: Conception (architectural fragment)
- Artist
- Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
- Physical Description
- A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.
- Century
- 2nd-3rd century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd century - 3rd century
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.37
- Medium and Support
- stone
- relevance
- rank 8.60664
- Primary Keywords
- architectural
- births
- buddha
- buddhism
- elephants
- fragment
- stupas
- Title
- The Salvation of the Elephant (Gaj Mokasha)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- An elephant seems to walk on water from the bottom right corner of the composition, rising towards Vishnu in the upper left with a single lotus flower in its trunk. Vishnu, with 4 arms, steps on green hills surrounding the lotus covered pond, bending towards the elephant. Garuda flies in the upper right.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1815
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.27
- Medium and Support
- paint on canvas
- relevance
- rank 8.60664
- Primary Keywords
- birds
- elephants
- flowers (plants)
- hinduism
- lotus
- paintings
- Title
- Ragamala series: Nata Ragini 3 (Battle scene)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.158
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.60664
- Primary Keywords
- battle
- buildings
- elephants
- horses
- trees
- weaponry
- weapons
- Title
- Elephant Mask (mbap mteng)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Bamileke Peoples, Cameroon
- Physical Description
- Face mask embroidered extensively wtih glass beads. Two long panels hang down the front and back of the wearer. Humanoid face at top has two round eye holes allowing the wearer to see, a strip of fabric for nose and open, upturned mouth. Ears are protruding disks attached on either side of the face . Top of the head is covered with small, corklike knobs covered with black cloth. The beadwork is predominantly green, with intricate, scallop-shaped patterns along edge of panels, and vertical, star-like patterns filling center of the panels. Interior of panels is lined with damask.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1950-1999
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.319
- Medium and Support
- cloth, glass beads, fiber
- relevance
- rank 8.51600
- Primary Keywords
- authority
- beads
- elephants
- face masks
- masquerades
- prestige
- royalty
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a community of laymen
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Eight worshippers sit to the right of a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk. They each raise beads in their hands. Below them a struggle is depicted. Two men in shorts wrestle, while a snake, tiger, and elephant rera up beside a fire.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.169
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.42725
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- elephants
- fire
- jain
- jainism
- monk
- snake
- tiger
- worshippers
- Title
- Shiva, Durga, Hanuman, Garuda, Ganesha, Nandi, animals and various Tantric symbols cast in base and body-fluted upper border at body and at cover.
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.74
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 8.42725
- Primary Keywords
- animals
- elephants
- figures
- ganesha
- hanuman
- hinduism
- lid
- shiva
- vessels
- Title
- Two Women
- Artist
- Ernst Kirchner
- Artist Life Dates
- 1880-1938
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1910
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.164
- Medium and Support
- Color crayons on thin smooth cream wove paper
- relevance
- rank 8.42725
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- elephants
- nudes
- riders, horseback
- seated
- standing
- trees
- vessels
- Title
- Conch trumpet, in an embossed silver mount, inlaid with lapis lazuli, turquoise and coral
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
- Physical Description
- An elaborately decorated conch shell trumpet, with extensions and a side chamber made from silver, inlaid with other precious metals and semi-precious stones of turquoise, lapiz lazuli, and mountain coral.
- Century
- 9th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 800-1900
- Accession Number
- 1982/2.42A
- Medium and Support
- conch shell, silver, vermeil, lapis lazuli, and coral
- relevance
- rank 8.25519
- Primary Keywords
- buddhism
- conch (shell)
- deer
- deity
- dragons
- elephants
- himalayan
- musical instruments
- phoenix
- Title
- Royal Elephant Mask (Bajoun)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Bamileke
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.305
- Medium and Support
- cloth with multi-colored beadwork
- relevance
- rank 7.79833
- Primary Keywords
- bamileke
- beads
- elephants
- masks
- masks (costume)
- royalty
- Title
- Shiva and his family
- Artist
- India, Punjab Hills, Kangra School
- Physical Description
- In this idyllic scene, the goddess Parvati offers her husband Shiva a drink, as they enjoy a quiet moment together. Their children, the elephant-headed Ganesha and Skanda, play inside a tent made from the hide of an elephant demon that Shiva had slain. Both parents are clothed in animal skins, the garb of mountain-dwelling ascetics, while Shiva is further adorned with a long necklace of skulls and a snake.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1790-1800
- Accession Number
- 1942.4
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.28819
- Primary Keywords
- children (offspring)
- children and adults
- deity
- elephant
- elephants
- family (group)
- family (sociological concept)
- hinduism
- oxen
- shiva
- tent