Toy cows
- Museum number:
- 9-11044a-h
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210911044a@2dh
- Alternate number:
- 372a-g (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2696
- Description:
- Toy cows (8); painted clay; large, each: 7 cm. length; 2 1/2 cm. width; small, each: 5 1/2 cm. length; 2 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, Benares
- Collector:
- Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
- Collection date:
- January 1970
- Materials:
- Clay (painted clay)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Cows and Toys (recreational artifacts)
- Function:
- 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
- Accession date:
- November 11, 1970
- Context of use:
- Played with anytime by children; Made by potter caste (kumhar)
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- small— width 2 centimeters, large— width 2.5 centimeters, small— length 5.5 centimeters, and large— length 7 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1976-1977 #26: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (November 12, 1976–February 2, 1977)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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