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Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar (r. 1734–51) Dressed as a Bhil, Hunting Deer at Night
Chokha
- Date
- c. 1735–40
- Medium
- gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The ruler, who has the title Maharana, wears the leaf skirt of the Bhil people of Western India, as he hunts deer with a female tracker. They both wear a girdle of bells to scare the quarry out of the underbrush, and she illuminates them using directed light from a lamp in a pot. The king has shot a deer in the neck; rabbit, antelopes, and boar scamper away. A woman also wearing a leaf skirt roasts kabobs on a three-pronged fork for a midnight snack on the riverbank.
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