Figures attached to a base using tangs and pins. In addition, a tang at the back of the gilt bronze Buddha figure has a hole for a pin to be inserted once the halo has been placed over the tang. Historical Buddha and Bodhisattvas, Buddhist altarpiece, northern China, Sui dynasty, 597 CE, H. 32.1 cm (Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, purchase—Margaret and George Halderman, and Museum Funds, gift of Charles Lang Freer, inv. F1914.21a–h).