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Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde 2014 – Rakshasa

05 Jan 2015 1 311
A Raksaha is a wood demon, mostly living of human flesh. This one is from Java, made between 1300–1500 AD. He probably stood as a doorkeeper outside a Hindu temple. The Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde is the Dutch national museum of ethnology. It was established in 1837.