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A masseur massaging the arm of a man who is sitting on a low stool, with a leg immersed in a brass basin
Content Provider | The Heritage Lab |
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Artist | Anonymous |
Organization | Wellcome Collection |
Temporal Coverage | 1825 |
Description | A Ghulām or bath attendant of the Shūdra caste. To a customer in a Mughal-inspired bath-house he is providing snehana and svedana: these are two Ayurvedic procedures, of which the former includes external oil massage to nourish the “nervous system”, while the latter applies hot steam to flush out the “toxins”. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Access Restriction | Open |
Rights License | CC-BY-4.0 |
Use Rights URL | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Subject Keyword | Men Objects Occupation Servant Wellcome Collection Painting |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Painting |