Yoke

Museum number:
9-11524
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
CH-7 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2697
Description:
Yoke. wood beam with rounded knob in center, bowed arch each end; flanked by two holes. Four pegs inserted in holes. rope attached to one peg. Beam 1.5 meters long.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
Collection place:
Choonsa Village, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Uttar Pradesh, Choonsa village
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Richard Lerner
Collection date:
March 1970
Materials:
Rope and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Yokes (animal equipment)
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
used by men. made ca. 1958, style pre-20th century. see field notes for names of parts, etc. [handwritten: collected in Khempur, based on Lerner photo-documentation. see acc. file - I. Jacknis]
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
beam— length 150 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Yoke, accession number 9-11524, described as Yoke. wood beam with rounded knob in center, bowed arch each end; flanked by two holes. Four pegs inserted in holes. rope attached to one peg. Beam 1.5 meters long.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Yoke, accession number 9-11524, described as Yoke. wood beam with rounded knob in center, bowed arch each end; flanked by two holes. Four pegs inserted in holes. rope attached to one peg. Beam 1.5 meters long.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Yoke, accession number 9-11524, described as Yoke. wood beam with rounded knob in center, bowed arch each end; flanked by two holes. Four pegs inserted in holes. rope attached to one peg. Beam 1.5 meters long.

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