Poster

About this object

Cultural context

Contemporary art.

Physical description

Poster depicting Guru Datta surrounded by Nav-nath (nine sages). Guru Datta has brown skin, three heads, six arms, upswept black hair, flower garland and beads, and yellow and red robes. He has three white bands around each of his upper and lower hands and a red lotus design on one right palm. One left hand holds a water carrier. He also has a light yellow halo behind his three heads. A decorated white bull is behind this figure. At centre bottom is a brown-skinned man with red and black clothes, three white horizontal lines on his forehead and three sets of three white lines on each arm. He also has a light yellow halo behind his head. Variations of this figure with beards, moustaches, or clean-shaven faces are repeated eight times around the two central figures. Each figure is holding a trident.