Wood mold

Museum number:

18-521

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Accession number:

Acc.2156

Description:

Rectangular wooden cookie mold with three anthropomorphic carved figures; short wooden handle at one end. Length 28.7 cm. According to exhibit label, may have been used to shape pastries at ceremonies and at the end of Ramadan.

Donor:

Nancy Tanner and University Appropriation

Collection place:

Malaysia

Culture or time period:

Malaysian and Minangkabau

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carvings (visual works)

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1966

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Legacy documentation: