Catheters

Museum number:
9-8393a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21098393a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.4168
Description:
Catheters used for swaddled infants, unfinished wood with pyro-incised encircling lines and decorative finials; a) flask-shaped bowl with conical shaped finial, for males; b) basin-shaped bowl with knob-shaped finial, for females
Donor:
Patricia Berger and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Oshpaz Bazaar, Kashgar, Xinjiang autonomous region
Verbatim coll. place:
China; Sinkiang Province; Kashgar; Oshpaz Bazaar
Collector:
Patricia Berger
Collection date:
September 1986
Object type:
ethnography
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Catheters, accession number 9-8393a,b, described as Catheters used for swaddled infants, unfinished wood with pyro-incised encircling lines and decorative finials; a) flask-shaped bowl with conical shaped finial, for males; b) basin-shaped bowl with knob-shaped finial, for females
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Catheters, accession number 9-8393a,b, described as Catheters used for swaddled infants, unfinished wood with pyro-incised encircling lines and decorative finials; a) flask-shaped bowl with conical shaped finial, for males; b) basin-shaped bowl with knob-shaped finial, for females

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