Salt

Museum number:
9-11498
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
Tin-11 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2697
Description:
block, white (5 total); a salt; package;: 14 cm x 15 cm (individual block average 15 cm x 15 cm) [pencil: "sun/BC/" stamped on side]
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
Collection place:
Uttar Pradesh, India
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Uttar Pradesh
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Richard Lerner
Collection date:
1970
Materials:
Salt (inorganic material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mineral and rock samples
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
salt is ground and applied to hot pots before metal plating them as part of a tinning process.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 15 centimeters and width 14 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Salt, accession number 9-11498, described as block, white (5 total); a salt; package;: 14 cm x 15 cm (individual block average 15 cm x 15 cm) [pencil: "sun/BC/" stamped on side]Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Salt, accession number 9-11498, described as block, white (5 total); a salt; package;: 14 cm x 15 cm (individual block average 15 cm x 15 cm) [pencil: "sun/BC/" stamped on side]Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Salt, accession number 9-11498, described as block, white (5 total); a salt; package;: 14 cm x 15 cm (individual block average 15 cm x 15 cm) [pencil: "sun/BC/" stamped on side]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Salt, accession number 9-11498, described as block, white (5 total); a salt; package;: 14 cm x 15 cm (individual block average 15 cm x 15 cm) [pencil: "sun/BC/" stamped on side]

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