Stool (seating furniture)

Museum number:
9-11520
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
SIT-2 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2697
Description:
Stool (aRuwaa), swamp grass, braided. Partly dried strips braided into a rope, with extra pieces left sticking out on one side. Pounded flat. Extra pieces braided next to 1st braid. Pounded flat. Ends rolled inside it ... rolled inside & passed to outside Can have 1-4 braids.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
Collection place:
Sitapur District, Uttar Pradesh, India
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Uttar Pradesh, Sitapur Dist., Nawadia Village
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Richard Lerner
Collection date:
February 1970
Materials:
Swampgrass (naktii, or called goundahi, braided)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Stools (seating furniture)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1970
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 9 centimeters and diameter 26 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 9-11520, described as Stool (aRuwaa), swamp grass, braided. Partly dried strips braided into a rope, with extra pieces left sticking out on one side. Pounded flat. Extra pieces braided next to 1st braid. Pounded flat. Ends rolled inside it ... rolled inside & passed to outside Can have 1-4 braids.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stool (seating furniture), accession number 9-11520, described as Stool (aRuwaa), swamp grass, braided. Partly dried strips braided into a rope, with extra pieces left sticking out on one side. Pounded flat. Extra pieces braided next to 1st braid. Pounded flat. Ends rolled inside it ... rolled inside & passed to outside Can have 1-4 braids.

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