Religious cord

Museum number:
9-12113
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2967
Description:
Religious cord; Parsi child’s; natural colored lamb's wool, handspun and handwoven; flat tape with braided and tasseled ends; one end broken, snarled and knotted around the other; traditionally worn wound around the waist by all Parsis after their initiation. All aspects of the kasti, material and technique, are symbolic of certain Zoroastrian beliefs and precepts. Donor’s mother, collector’s paternal grandmother wove this specimen for collector’s initiation, or Navjote ceremony.
Donor:
M. B. Ichaporia and Mrs. M. B. Ichaporia
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection date:
August 18, 1972
Materials:
Lamb's wool
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1972
Context of use:
Traditionally worn wound around the waist by all Parsis after their initiation. All aspects of the kasti, material and technique, are symbolic of certain Zoroastrian beliefs and precepts. Donor’s mother, collector’s paternal grandmother wove this specimen for collector’s initiation, or Navjote ceremony.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Religious cord, accession number 9-12113, described as Religious cord; Parsi child’s; natural colored lamb's wool, handspun and handwoven; flat tape with braided and tasseled ends; one end broken, snarled and knotted around the other; traditionally worn wound around the waist by all Parsis after their initiation. All aspects of the kasti, material and technique, are symbolic of certain Zoroastrian beliefs and precepts. Donor’s mother, collector’s paternal grandmother wove this specimen for collector’s initiation, or Navjote ceremony.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Religious cord, accession number 9-12113, described as Religious cord; Parsi child’s; natural colored lamb's wool, handspun and handwoven; flat tape with braided and tasseled ends; one end broken, snarled and knotted around the other; traditionally worn wound around the waist by all Parsis after their initiation. All aspects of the kasti, material and technique, are symbolic of certain Zoroastrian beliefs and precepts. Donor’s mother, collector’s paternal grandmother wove this specimen for collector’s initiation, or Navjote ceremony.

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