Lamp "Dipa"
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: PINCHED HEMISPHERICAL BASE; SHAPED RIM, WITH SPOUT FOR WICK. MADE BY NALAMANI BISOI, FEMALE AGED 36 INNOVMEMBER 1980. DISTINGUISHED FROM "DIPALI", CAT. # 423329-423331 BY HAVING RIM AS WELL AS SPOUT FOR WICK. IN TEMPLE, SUPPLIED WITH COTTON WICK AND CLARIFIED BUTTER (GHEE), OFFERED TO DEITIES AT TIME OF WORSHIP. LAMPS AND SUPPLIES ARE SOLD TO VARIOUS SHRINES WITHIN TEMPLE COMPOUND. FORMERLY 24 PIECES GIVEN DAILY FOR KOTHA BOG, BEFORE THE TEMPLE INTERIOR WAS ILLUMINATED WITH ELECTRICI-TY.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361229
label: USNM Number
content: E423333-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 2.8 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 7.9 cm