Tool

Museum number:
9-5881
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
Chatelaine ornaments on 4 chains from ring; silver; includes box with traces of white powder. 4 spoons and picks; incised floral designs; woman’s personal tools for preparing betel quid; worn suspended from chain.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kathmandu, Nepal
Verbatim coll. place:
Marwar; Nepal
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1909
Materials:
Metal and Silver (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tool, accession number 9-5881, described as Chatelaine ornaments on 4 chains from ring; silver; includes box with traces of white powder. 4 spoons and picks; incised floral designs; woman’s personal tools for preparing betel quid; worn suspended from chain.

Tools