Casket
date: label: Date made
content: 1991
notes: label: Description
content: Child-sized pine casket with a wood Star of David on the top, manufactured by C. Stoler and Co., Inc., in Bristol, Tn. To meet the requirements of Jewish burial practice, the casket has no metal parts; and the manufacturing facility observed the Sabbath and all Jewish holy days. The firm was established in New York City, in 1891.
label: Description
content: Ref: David H. Shayt, “The Jewish Way of Death,” Folklore Forum 29 (1998): 109-112.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee, Bristol
topic: label: Subject
content: Judaism
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0559.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0559.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0559
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Casket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 44 cm x 91 cm x 56 cm; 17 5/16 in x 35 13/16 in x 22 1/16 in