wooden block for printing cloth; wood; 21.5 cm length; 15.8 cm width
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
Collection place:
Delhi State, India
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Delhi
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
Collection date:
January 1970
Materials:
Wood (plant material) (carved)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
November 11, 1970
Context of use:
used by the men and women of cloth-dying castes to print cloth; cloth placed on plate and soaked with dye, when block touches cloth it picks up dye, with which fabric is printed; Made by carpenter caste - Suthar
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 21.5 centimeters and width 15.8 centimeters