Cleveland Museum of Art

Hanuman

Date

1100s

Medium

bronze

Culture

Cambodia, Angkor, Bayon style, 12th Century

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

When posed in this powerful and exuberant manner, the image of Hanuman stood at the top of a standard. As the son of the wind god and the most powerful of the primeval forest-dwellers, who are depicted with the head and tail of a monkey and the body of a man, Hanuman as an emblem spelled success in battle.

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