Vessel "Nambari Kudia"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Aug 1988
label: Collection Date
content: 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Louise A. Cort
label: Collector
content: Purna Chandra Mishra
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Louise A. Cort
notes: label: Notes
content: WIDE MOUTH, ROUNDED BASE. UPRIGHT RIM WITH FLAT INTERIOR; TOP EDGE SLOPES OUTWARD AND DOWN WITH PRONOUN- CED GROOVE BELOW IT; EXTERIOR OF RIM BELOW GROOVE SLIGHT-LY CONVEX. FOUR ROWS OF BEATEN FACETS AND CIRCULAR BEATEN MARK ("TOPI") ON BASE. TRACES OF ASH USED IN BEATING PROCESS ON INTERIOR. MADE BY MAGA BISOI, MALE AGED APPROX. 46 IN NOV. 1980. THE NAME COMES FROM THE COLLOQUIAL ORIYA TERM FOR "NUMBER ONE, THE BEST" ("NAMBARI"); ALSO CALLED "SERIKIA KUDIA" ("SEER'S-WORTH-OF-COOKED-FOOD-KUDIA"). CAPACITY 3.5 LITERS. SAME SIZE AS TIPEI (SEE CAT. # 423319) BUT WITH DIFFERENT RIM FORM. THIS SIZE & FORM OF POT SAID TO HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED IN THE 1930'S, BUT IT WASWITHDRAWN FROM USE TEMPORARILY BECAUSE OF COMPLAINTS THAT ITS RIM RESEMBLED TOO CLOSELY THAT OF THE ORDINARY BLACK COOKING POT "ATIKA" (SEE CAT. # 423305). REINTRODUCED WITH REVISED RIM FORM CIRCA 1945. COST (1980) .47-.50 RUPEES EACH (SELLING PRICE TO TEMPLE COOKS' ORGANIZATION).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tikarapada Village / Puri Town, Puri, Orissa (Odisha), India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Oriya Kumbharas, Kumbhara-Bisois, Jagannath Temple Potters
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361229
label: USNM Number
content: E423308-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vessel
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 17.5 cm