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        "tombstone": "Sheetaladevi: The Smallpox Goddess (recto), from a Kalighat album, c. 1890. Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat. Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper; secondary support: 46.9 x 29.8 cm (18 7/16 x 11 3/4 in.); painting only: 45.5 x 27.7 cm (17 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward, 2003.157.a",
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        "title": "Sheetaladevi: The Smallpox Goddess (recto), from a Kalighat album",
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                    "title": "Indian Kalighat Paintings",
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        "description": "Sheetala, the smallpox goddess, is simultaneously benevolent and dangerous: she can both protect and infect, bless and curse devotees with smallpox and other diseases. Persons scarred by smallpox are believed to have been graced by her. She is appeased so that she does not infect her worshippers. Her name, Sheetala, \u201cCool One,\u201d refers to her birth out of a cooled sacrificial fire. The rippled curtains above her are suggestive of theatrical tableau and <em>Sheetalapala</em> (The Drama of Sheetala) that was performed in Bengal. She sits astride her vehicle (<em>vahana</em>), the donkey, regarded as an inauspicious animal.",
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