English: Face of Bhairava for a Festival Float at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Description from the museum reads: "Face of Bhairava for a Festival Float. Around 1500-1600. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley). Mercury-gilded copper alloy, rock crystal, paint, foil, glass. A wrathful form of the Hindu god Shiva, Bhairava is the protector of the city of Kathmandu in Nepal and is venerated by both Hindus and Buddhists. Monumental, masklike faces of Bhairavas are made in Nepal for various festivals, most notably Indra-Jatra, which is celebrated over several days in early fall in the Kathmandu Valley. Within the concave face, hammered out of a single sheet of metal, is places a large pot filled with home-brewed beer. Leaves and flowers garlaned thee figures' now-missing shoulders and it is places on a platform. At the appropriate auspicious moment, the sanctified beer is released, spurting out of Bhairava's open mouth as crowds of worshipers jostle to receive a taste as a gift and a blessing from the god. Purchased with the Stella Kramrisch Fund, 1998-77-1."