Metal jewlery
- Museum number:
- 9-11089
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090011089
- Alternate number:
- 308 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2696
- Description:
- ritual luck object - foot of Lakshmi; copper; 12 cm length, 6.5 cm width
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
- Collection place:
- Varanasi (city), Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
- Collection date:
- January 1970
- Materials:
- Copper (metal) (stipped)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- November 11, 1970
- Context of use:
- used anytime by men or women; hung somewhere, often near doors; hung as an auspicious object since Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth. Made by men
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- width 6.5 centimeters and length 12 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1979-1980 #20: California State University, East Bay (November 5, 1979–July 31, 1980)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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