Box

Museum number:
9-21573a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210921573a@2dc
Alternate number:
9-21573 and MVC-X001 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Boxes; a) complete box 35.2 cm x 25.8 cm x 5.3 cm; made of cardboard; red sides printed with English and Sanscrit(?) letters “Handloom House:; black, grey and white image of Indian man and three women on lid of box ; inside flap has black and white photograph and English writing about textiles in India; b) lid from box identical to a) c) bottom of the box from which b was disconnected.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India; Handloom House
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
boxes contained 9-21533 through 9-21542 of Acc. 4734
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 25.8 centimeters, length 35.2 centimeters, and height 5.3 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: one box torn
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 9-21573a-c, described as Boxes; a) complete box 35.2 cm x 25.8 cm x 5.3 cm; made of cardboard; red sides printed with English and Sanscrit(?) letters “Handloom House:; black, grey and white image of Indian man and three women on lid of box ; inside flap has black and white photograph and English writing about textiles in India; b) lid from box identical to a) c) bottom of the box from which b was disconnected.

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