- Museum number:
- 9-11473
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090011473
- Accession number:
- Acc.2697
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- clothes beater; made of new wood; length 44.9 x width 6 cm x 3.2 cm
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
- Collection place:
- New Delhi, Delhi State, India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, New Delhi, Kurol Boyh, Ajimal Khan Market
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Richard Lerner
- Collection date:
- January 4, 1970
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material) (new)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1970
- Context of use:
- used in homes for washing clothes; the clothes are placed on the floor or wooden board and beaten, usually with soap in the clothes
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- width 6 centimeters, height 3.2 centimeters, and length 44.9 centimeters