Iron

Museum number:
9-11492
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
SS (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2697
Description:
iron (for ironing clothes); brass, wooden handle; length 20.5 cm x width 13.5 cm x height 19 cm top of the iron is hinged making the inside accessible - hot coals placed inside to heat it
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
Collection place:
Uttar Pradesh, India
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Uttar Pradesh
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Richard Lerner
Collection date:
1970
Materials:
Brass (alloy) and Wood (plant material) (wooden handle)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
used by men or women , usually women, to iron clothes; heated by hot coals - placed inside; used in the home
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 13.5 centimeters, height 19 centimeters, and length 20.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1979-1980 #12: Associated Student Body (UC Berkeley) (September 25, 1979–January 22, 1980) and S1980-1981 #38: University of California, Berkeley (January 13, 1981–March 6, 1981)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Iron, accession number 9-11492, described as iron (for ironing clothes); brass, wooden handle; length 20.5 cm x width 13.5 cm x height 19 cm top of the iron is hinged making the inside accessible - hot coals placed inside to heat itHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Iron, accession number 9-11492, described as iron (for ironing clothes); brass, wooden handle; length 20.5 cm x width 13.5 cm x height 19 cm top of the iron is hinged making the inside accessible - hot coals placed inside to heat it
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Iron, accession number 9-11492, described as iron (for ironing clothes); brass, wooden handle; length 20.5 cm x width 13.5 cm x height 19 cm top of the iron is hinged making the inside accessible - hot coals placed inside to heat it

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