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# Painting

Opaque watercolour painting of a peon (a orderly), with closely cropped hair and a moustache, wearing a lower garment reaching below his knees, a kurta, a jacket and a tall turban. In his right hand he carries an axe and in the left a length of rope.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1750–1799 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1974-0617-0-7-36](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1974-0617-0-7-36) · Pramāṇa
