The item is made up of bronze. The Ganesha is the first son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati, the most interesting deity and the iconocologists delight. Ganesha is also known as Vinayaga, Ganapati, Vigneswara. He is an elephant headed deity with four hands holding paasam (the noose) and mazhu (the axe) in his hands along with his broken tusk in writing pose.