Arab Door
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1960 to 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Grace Burkholder
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Grace Burkholder
notes: label: Notes
content: Collector's notes: "...small doors [like this] were placed low in the massive entrance doors of many homes. They allowed one person at a time to bend low and step through without opening the larger door. This provided much easier security for the occupants and kept out unwanted animals, etc. I'm not very familiar with the Biblical quotations, but there is "it would be easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than..." Since these doors are called the eye of the needle, I feel certain [that] the Biblical reference is to them... A picture from Armco World, Aug-Sept 1963 depicts one of the doors".
label: Notes
content: Painted wooden door and frame. Whole door is painted with geometric patterns in blue, yellow, brown, and black. Carved decorative pieces, with alternating round and diamond shapes, are attached along top and bottom. Wooden handle attached at right. Simple wooden frame, painted white, with opening on one side for a latch or lock.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Saudi Arabia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arab
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370093
label: USNM Number
content: E432036-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Door
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Height
content: 51.8 cm
label: Length
content: 44.5 cm
label: Maximum Width
content: 7.5 cm