Fragment of a threshing hammer

Description

heavy wood, middle brown patina, remains of black and red paint, as well as red pigment, massive horseshoe-shaped corpus with bobbin, crowned by an anthropomorphic torso, “tika” (sign of blessing) on the forehead, carved with the image of the Hindu god “ganesha” in bas-relief and Devanagari inscription, slightly dam., rep. (at the frontside of the horseshoe-shaped corpus a piece of wood reinserted)