Image: PrayingTangutMan
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Description: Praying man (?), China, Gansu or Ningxia (?), 10th/11th century. Height 60 cm, width 50 cm. Fragment of a wall painting. Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris, Inv. no. MA 480. If one accepts that the painting is from Ningxia or Gansu, the man might be a Tangut.
Title: PrayingTangutMan
Credit: Dschingis Khan und seine Erben (exhibition catalogue), München 2005, p. 325
Author: unknown / (of the reproduction) Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris
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