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- Title
Rethinking Jaina: Goddesses, Skirts, and the Jolly Roger.
- Authors
Miller, Mary E.
- Abstract
The article discusses the Jaina Goddess, Goddess O, her skirts and the relation of that skirt with the Jolly Roger flag. The author, organized an exhibition of Jaina figurines. Goddess O has disparate aspects: midwife, warrior, and arbiter of the dangerous forces and gods that pervade birth. Her skirts are characteristics of her representations and her roles. But pirates have depicted the skirts of the goddess on the flag Jolly Roger, which had imagery of skull and crossed bones. The flag also featured weapons and an hourglass.
- Subjects
JAINA portrait sculpture; JAINA goddesses; FIGURINES; SKIRTS; FLAGS in art; PIRATES
- Publication
Record of the Princeton University Art Museum, 2005, Vol 64, p63
- ISSN
0032-843X
- Publication type
Article