spikes, iron; short with large heads; a. length 13.3 cm / b. length: 15.2 cm
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:
Iron (metal) (iron, not of commercial manufacture)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spikes (object genre)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
used to hold machine (kallai - see 9-11495) in place while in use; driven into ground through two holes in base toward the fire; used in tinning process
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
a— length 13.3 centimeters and b— length 15.2 centimeters