Toy
- Museum number:
- 9-11577
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090011577
- Accession number:
- Acc.2697
- Description:
- Toy spear; wood stick covered with silver foil and blue paper; head is pink paper trimmed with silver foil (teardrop shape); Length 69 cm.
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
- Collection place:
- India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India
- Collector:
- Richard Lerner
- Collection date:
- 1968-1970
- Materials:
- Paper (fiber product), Silver (metal), and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Toys (recreational artifacts)
- Function:
- 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
- Accession date:
- 1970
- Context of use:
- toy - a spear, used in Ram Lila performances of Ramayana - per R. Lerner, cf. acc. file for memo. I. Jacknis
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 69 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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