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Hindu Cosmological Globe

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Hindu Cosmological Globe - Maps Show at Walters Art Museum - Baltimore MD - Maryland

Hindu Cosmological Globe

Courtesy of Walters Art Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, London
19th century
Pigment on wood
This 19th-century Hindu globe from Orissa, India, has the sacred Mount Meru as its axis.

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