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# 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

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1974-0617-0-7-33](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1974-0617-0-7-33) · Pramāṇa
