Chalk cube

Museum number:
9-12932
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Accession number:
Acc.2910
Description:
A white cube of chalk. Native name: "ipoti" or "bapotee". This would have been moistened and rubbed across the forehead during Hindu religious rituals. Cubes of chalk were sold by vendors with incense and other ritual and religious paraphernalia. Width approximately 4.3 cm.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection place:
Mysore, Karnataka State, India
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
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:
December 7, 1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Chalk cube, accession number 9-12932, described as A white cube of chalk. Native name: "ipoti" or "bapotee". This would have been moistened and rubbed across the forehead during Hindu religious rituals. Cubes of chalk were sold by vendors with incense and other ritual and religious paraphernalia. Width approximately 4.3 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Chalk cube, accession number 9-12932, described as A white cube of chalk. Native name: "ipoti" or "bapotee". This would have been moistened and rubbed across the forehead during Hindu religious rituals. Cubes of chalk were sold by vendors with incense and other ritual and religious paraphernalia. Width approximately 4.3 cm.

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