Doll

Museum number:
9-13047a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210913047a@2dc
Accession number:
Acc.3242
Description:
A doll representing a male musician playing two "tablas" (drums); he is shown seated, wearing a white gauze cotton and metallic garment, a green cotton turban, with a cloth body and painted ceramic head and feet. Includes a masonite stand. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height of the doll (including the turban) 12.5 cm, tabla (a) 3.5 cm, tabla (b) 2.7 cm.
Donor:
Elizabeth McCown Langstroth
Collection place:
Pune, Maharashtra State, India
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Maharashtra, Poona
Collection date:
1967
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dolls (figurines) and Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1976
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Doll, accession number 9-13047a-c, described as A doll representing a male musician playing two "tablas" (drums); he is shown seated, wearing a white gauze cotton and metallic garment, a green cotton turban, with a cloth body and painted ceramic head and feet. Includes a masonite stand. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height of the doll (including the turban) 12.5 cm, tabla (a) 3.5 cm, tabla (b) 2.7 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Doll, accession number 9-13047a-c, described as A doll representing a male musician playing two "tablas" (drums); he is shown seated, wearing a white gauze cotton and metallic garment, a green cotton turban, with a cloth body and painted ceramic head and feet. Includes a masonite stand. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height of the doll (including the turban) 12.5 cm, tabla (a) 3.5 cm, tabla (b) 2.7 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Doll, accession number 9-13047a-c, described as A doll representing a male musician playing two "tablas" (drums); he is shown seated, wearing a white gauze cotton and metallic garment, a green cotton turban, with a cloth body and painted ceramic head and feet. Includes a masonite stand. Not played with by children (cf. 9-7259 - 7266 for other "dolls" by the same artisan). Height of the doll (including the turban) 12.5 cm, tabla (a) 3.5 cm, tabla (b) 2.7 cm.

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