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A model temple car or ratha. In wood (painted and unpainted), textile and metal. Adorned with Vishnu images painted on flat panels and many model attendant figures carved in the round. The whole is drawn by horses and attended by a small Garuda figure. The whole is surmounted by a high fringed canopy in red felt decorated with triangular silk pennants and surmounted by a brass finial. On the passenger platform is a long bolster-like cushion in white silk.
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