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Jens Nordlunde · 24th June 2005, 03:06 PM

I realised that the different deities would look different from place to place, but I did not realise that the iconography would be different from place to place. However if you insist, I will bow my head and hurry to bring some links to Balinese Ganesha’s.

Balinese Ganesha http://www.geocities.com/keris4u/han...ood_ganesh.htm

http://www.hofstra.edu/COM/Museum/mu...melanesian.cfm here you, amongst other can read this text: ‘A few figures in the exhibition at Hofstra exemplify a substyle of the more prevalent New Guinea/Sepik artistic language, and that is the "Beak," a regional variation of the lower Sepik and environs. In these areas, a figure's nose descends into a prominent tip occasionally reaching to the chin or further into the lower anatomy. Complimentary to this distinctive representation of nose is narrowing of the face along a perpendicular axis with corresponding slanting eyes. Lost in history is the reason for this unique facial appearance; over the current century, Western scholars have postulated the nose "beak" as a sign of clan identification with the totem hornbill bird or as a provincial adaptation of the Hindu/Balinese Ganesha elephantine god of wisdom and scholarship.

Here is another one http://www.symbiosys.nl/wink/E_art_176.html

And a lot of different Ganesha’s from different places http://www.symbiosys.nl/wink/E_noframes.html

24th June 2005, 03:06 PM	#33
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,713	I realised that the different deities would look different from place to place, but I did not realise that the iconography would be different from place to place. However if you insist, I will bow my head and hurry to bring some links to Balinese Ganesha’s. Balinese Ganesha http://www.geocities.com/keris4u/han...ood_ganesh.htm http://www.hofstra.edu/COM/Museum/mu...melanesian.cfm here you, amongst other can read this text: ‘A few figures in the exhibition at Hofstra exemplify a substyle of the more prevalent New Guinea/Sepik artistic language, and that is the "Beak," a regional variation of the lower Sepik and environs. In these areas, a figure's nose descends into a prominent tip occasionally reaching to the chin or further into the lower anatomy. Complimentary to this distinctive representation of nose is narrowing of the face along a perpendicular axis with corresponding slanting eyes. Lost in history is the reason for this unique facial appearance; over the current century, Western scholars have postulated the nose "beak" as a sign of clan identification with the totem hornbill bird or as a provincial adaptation of the Hindu/Balinese Ganesha elephantine god of wisdom and scholarship. Here is another one http://www.symbiosys.nl/wink/E_art_176.html And a lot of different Ganesha’s from different places http://www.symbiosys.nl/wink/E_noframes.html