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# Ceremonial textile

This cotton ceremonial cloth has a design of a woman carrying a parrot with female attendants holding an umbrella. The design is repeated over two registers. The motifs mimic those seen in western Indian manuscript painting of the period 1400-1500 and earlier.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1350–1500 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-95-1993](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-95-1993) · Pramāṇa
