Potter's Wheel Stone "Caka Barada"
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: FRAGMENT OF IRREGULAR SHAPE, PARTIALLY POLISHED; DARK GRAY STONE. COLLECTED FROM HARIBANDHU BISOI, MALE, AGED 65 (SEE CAT. #423318, 423319, 423320). COLLECTED AS BROKEN; FURTHER SECTIONED AND PARTIALLY DESTROYED FOR ANALYSIS BY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, BHUBANESWAR BRANCH. REPORT FROM THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA: "THE ROCK IS MEDIUM-GRAINED, DIRTY FLESH PINK IN COLOR, WITH 2 SETS OF INTERSECTING FOLIATION AT 45 DEGREE ANGLE TO EACH OTHER AND IS ANORTHOSITIC NORITE WITH XENO- MORPHIC EQUANT TO BLADED HYPERSTHENE (30%) SET IN A MOSAIC OF LABRADORITE PLAGIOCLASE (AN 58), AND MINOR CLOTS OF MAGNETITE ALTERED IN VARYING DEGREES TO GOETHITE AND LEPI-DOCROCITE. THE SOURCE OF THIS MATERIAL COULD BE A) THE TAPANG QUARRIES, WHERE BASIC CHARNOCKITE OF SIMILIAR COMPOSITION IS FREQUENT AS SMALL BODIES OR B) THE CHILKA LAKE ANORTHOSITIC MASS, WHERE SUCH VARIANTS ARE PRESENT." (10-30-80).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Oct 2021
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: E423362-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Potter's Wheel
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 4.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3 cm