tray, sheet metal; edges bent up to form sides - interior badly rusted; very light weight; 42 cm x 26.5 cm
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:
Metal (sheet metal - originally used as a grinding surface)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Trays
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
Lerner states this is for: "grinding the powder on" - and on the basis of the field notes (the orig. # series "Tin") that this was probably used in a 'tinning' process