She and her husband, Norris, built a home on the land and raised Black Angus cattle and buffalo.

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The 5-foot-tall Mehta painting, "Mahisasura, " inspired by a 5th-century Hindu myth, was at once violent and sexual, divine and mortal, vividly depicting an orange-and-black warrior goddess wrapping a red-and-gray buffalo demon in her lethal embrace.

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People tithed in Mercury dimes and buffalo nickels, and pews filled with old men who wore ancient black suit coats over overalls, and young men in short-sleeved dress shirts and clip-on ties.

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