Betel nut cutter; bronze; top in the form of a peacock with 2 pendant medallions as wings; length 17.7 cm.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection place:
India
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Betel nut scissors
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
December 7, 1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1979-1980 #30: University of California Library (December 11, 1979–January 3, 1980) and S1979-1980 #35: University of California, Santa Cruz (January 4, 1980–March 3, 1980)