Cake mold

Museum number:
18-538
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180000538
Accession number:
Acc.2156
Description:
Circular cast brass cake mold, with two handles; for wheat flour cake; contains eight inner molds which are shaped like fish, flowers, melon, leaf. Made by blacksmith; cake made at home, sold at Bukittinggi market.
Donor:
Nancy Tanner and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Sumatra, Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Indonesian and Minangkabau
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cake molds
Function:
1.5 Household and 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1966
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cake mold, accession number 18-538, described as Circular cast brass cake mold, with two handles; for wheat flour cake; contains eight inner molds which are shaped like fish, flowers, melon, leaf. Made by blacksmith; cake made at home, sold at Bukittinggi market.

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