Calendar
- Museum number:
- 9-11432
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090011432
- Alternate number:
- ICS-2 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2697
- Description:
- calendar, year 1968; depicts 'Mira Bai', a Rajput woman who was a devotee of Lord 'Krishna'; she was as 16th century poetess of the 'Bhakti' (devotional) period; being punished by her relatives for over-devotion to 'Krishna', she was ordered to drink poison; as she drank, 'Krishna' appeared to her and she lived; now she is a saint; 64.5 cm length; 35.5 cm width; Role in trade - promotional device for the Agra Trade Corporation
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
- Collection place:
- Uttar Pradesh, India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, Uttar Pradesh, Agra?
- Collector:
- Richard Lerner
- Collection date:
- January 25, 1970
- Materials:
- Metal (metal band at top) and Paper (fiber product) (calendar printed on paper)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Calendars (documents)
- Function:
- 7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
- Accession date:
- 1970
- Context of use:
- used as calendar
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 64.5 centimeters and width 35.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-