马杜拉。大宝塔珠宝。 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	马杜拉。大宝塔珠宝。
品名（英）	Madura. The Great Pagoda Jewels.
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.381.2.11
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Linnaeus Tripe【1822 至 1902】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1858
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 21.9 x 30.1 厘米 (8 5/8 x 11 7/8 英寸) Mount: 45.1 x 57.3 厘米 (17 3/4 x 22 9/16 英寸) Mat: 21 1/8 × 23 15/16 英寸 (53.6 × 60.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	Linneaus Tripe在17岁时加入了东印度公司的军队。1851年和1853年，他在英国休假期间，购买了相机和摄影器材。1854年，他对Hullabede和Belur古庙的看法引起了公司董事的注意，他们在1855年要求印度总统使用摄影师而不是绘图员来记录地区文物。第二年，特里普被任命为马德拉斯总统的政府摄影师，并于1857-58年对南部地区进行了一次长期的摄影之旅，于1858年拍摄了六卷精美的照片，其中大部分是寺庙的照片。这张照片是《马杜赖》卷第三部分的第11版。这是在马杜赖大庙拍摄的几张照片之一，它代表了在节日游行中隆重地穿过寺庙大院的偶像及其坐骑的特殊装饰。除了珠光宝气的王冠、项链和额饰外，还有金色的马镫、珍珠和珊瑚制成的缰绳。背景中的大型装饰物点缀着湿婆神的阳具象征lingam。眼镜蛇被放在林甘岛上，会盘旋在它周围，升起它的头罩，过度地展示保护的威严。主要的林甘人居住在最里面的寺庙里，禁止外国人进入。因此，特里普的照片是关于一个他无法拍摄的仪式和一个他看不见的神的缺席象征。
介绍（英）	Linneaus Tripe enlisted in the army of the East India Company at the age of seventeen. While in England on furlough in 1851 and 1853, he purchased cameras and photographic apparatus. The views he made of ancient temples in Hullabede and Belur in 1854 attracted the attention of the directors of the company, who in 1855 requested that the Indian presidencies use photographers rather than draftsmen to record regional antiquities. The following year Tripe was appointed government photographer to the Madras presidency, and in 1857-58 he made an extended photographic tour of the southern districts, producing six volumes of handsome photographs, most of them of temples, in 1858. This photograph is plate 11 in the third section of the Madurai volume. One of several photographs taken at the Great Temple of Madurai, it represents the special adornments for the idols and their mounts which were ceremoniously carried through the temple compound in festival processions. In addition to the richly jeweled crowns, necklaces, and forehead ornaments, there are stirrups of gold and bridles of pearls and coral. The large ornaments in the background embellished the lingam, the phallic symbol of the god Shiva. Placed over the lingam, the cobra would coil around it, raising its hood in an exorbitant display of protective majesty. The principal lingam resided in the innermost temple, forbidden to foreigners. Tripe's picture is thus about a ceremony he could not photograph and the absent symbol of a god he could not see.