Painting

Opaque watercolour painting of two conjurers, who are devotees of the smallpox goddess, Mariamman. The man with closely cropped beard and a moustache, wears short knee-length trousers tied with a white sash at the waist and two necklaces of coloured beads, with earrings in both the earlobe and the helix.

Kind

artefact

Date

1750–1799 CE