Metal jewlery
- Museum number:
- 9-11087
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090011087
- Alternate number:
- 298 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2696
- Description:
- amulet against the smallpox; silver; 2 cm length; 1.8 cm width
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
- Collection place:
- Varanasi (city), Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, Uttar Pradesh, Benares
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
- Collection date:
- January 1970
- Materials:
- Silver (metal) (caste)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Amulets
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- November 11, 1970
- Context of use:
- Sitala Mata is the goddess of smallpox; worn everyday by men, women, and especially babies to protect against smallpox; worn on string around the neck
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 2 centimeters
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- Legacy documentation:
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