Wooden sculpture of a tiger with a human holding a bottle on a blue base. mauritius images / CC BY SA / imageBROKER
The British colonial wars in India fill entire libraries. Little known, especially in the West, is a bizarre tiger figure made of wood and metal that developed strong symbolic power during the Mysore Wars (1767–1799).
“Tipus Tiger” is not exactly an artistically successful caricature. With wood as a material it works
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