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The figure originally had four arms, two of which are now missing. There is a hole at the back on the base, presumably for a torana (a ceremonial arch, standing behind the figure). 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Mackenzie'. Colonel Colin Mackenzie was a British antiquarian who completed a major survey of the Mysore kingdom in southern India and became the first Surveyor General of India in 1815. Born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Mackenzie travelled to India in 1783 as an Infantry cadet in  the 78th Seaforth  Highlanders but in 1786 transferred to become an Engineer in the Madras Army. He spent the remainder of his life in Asia, much of it in southern India, where he carried out a survey of the Nizam of Hyderabad's Dominions (1792-8) and the Mysore Survey (1799-1810), although he also worked in other  parts of India. Mackenzie carried out an expedition to Java (1811-13) and it is probable that he collected this figure while he was there. Further information on Mackenzie can be found in Howes, J. <u>Illustrating India:  the Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784-1821)</u>, Oxford University Press, 2010 and other publications.  Mackenzie's serious research into antiquities began after his return from an expedition to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1796 and was made possible by his association with Kavelli (or Cavelly) Venkata Boria, a Brahmin whose talents as a translator of Indian languages were of great importance to Mackenzie and some of whose family members continued to work with Mackenzie after Boria's death in 1803.\n\nThe Slip Book entry for this figure describes it as 'Idol (Bronze)... Buddha.' 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