Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Kali is depicted enshrined inside the Kalighat temple. This image of Goddess Kali is an aspect of the deity in her most terryfying form and as black skinned, four armed with her tongue out, wearing a garland, supposed to be of human heads. She has the third eye on her forehead. The deity holds her upper right palm in abhoy-mudra and the lower right palm in baroda-mudra. In her her lower left hand she holds a severed head of an Asur and in her upper left hand she holds a kharga, sacrificial axe. The deity is depicted in one hand as a benevolent goddess and on the other as fearsome. The image is elaborately ornated in Kalighat style in tin alloy with necklace, ear and nose rings, amulets and bracelets. The image is also adorned with a tiara.