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My beautiful monkey Shabnam (my eunuch brother’s name) that was killed by the Muslims. They said a monkey is a Hindu god and therefore cannot live in a Muslim graveyard. So they poisoned him, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"
Dayanita Singh1999, printed 2008
- Attribution
- Dayanita Singh Indian, born 1961
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Physical dimensions
- 30.5 × 45.7 cm (12 × 18 in., image); 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in., paper)
- Credit line
- Photography Associates and Contemporary Art Discretionary Funds
CATALOGUE RECORD
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Source rights statement: © 1996-2003 Dayanita Singh.
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