porcelain bowl with red, blue, green floral design; rim diam 42 cm.
Donor:
Nancy Tanner and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Sumatra, Indonesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Indonesia, West Sumatra (made in China)
Culture or time period:
Indonesian
Collector:
Nancy Tanner and Rivai Sjarif
Collection date:
1965-1966
Materials:
Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation) and 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1966
Context of use:
used in ceremonies especially as rice container; eaten from directly by up to 6 people; this type of eating called 'Makah Badjamba' "6 people eating together"; made by Chinese.