Balloon

Museum number:

9-11635a

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

9-11635

Accession number:

Acc.2697

Description:

a) Bag of balloons for Holi Festival - too fragile to count individually

Donor:

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner

Collection place:

Delhi State, India

Verbatim coll. place:

India, S.B. Dehli, Gandi Market

Culture or time period:

Indian

Collector:

Richard Lerner

Collection date:

September 1969

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Accession date:

1970

Context of use:

for Holi Festival

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)