Kettle

Museum number:
9-8386
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090008386
Accession number:
Acc.4168
Description:
Kettle with spout and hinged lid, brass with copper trim, incised parallel lines on brass; kettles such as this appear as dowry among the Uighurs
Donor:
Patricia Berger and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Oshpaz Bazaar, Kashgar, Xinjiang autonomous region
Verbatim coll. place:
China; Sinkiang Province; Kashgar; Oshpaz Bazaar; Uighur
Culture or time period:
Uyghur
Collector:
Patricia Berger
Collection date:
September 1986
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Context of use:
Kettles such as this appear as dowry among the Uighurs.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Kettle, accession number 9-8386, described as Kettle with spout and hinged lid, brass with copper trim, incised parallel lines on brass; kettles such as this appear as dowry among the Uighurs
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Kettle, accession number 9-8386, described as Kettle with spout and hinged lid, brass with copper trim, incised parallel lines on brass; kettles such as this appear as dowry among the Uighurs

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