Vessel "Bai Handi"
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, INTERIOR FLAT; EXTERIOR SLOPES TOWARD CENTRAL RIDGE. SLOPING THROWN SHOULDER, VISIBLE THROWING MARKS. TWO DISTICT ROWSOF BEATEN FACETS ON EXTERIOR (11 ROWS DISCERNABLE ON IN- TERIOR) AND CIRCULAR BEATEN MARK ("TOPI") ON BASE. TRACES OF ASH USED IN BEATING PROCESS ON INTERIOR. MADE BY MAGABISOI, MALE, AGED APPROX. 46, IN NOVEMBER 1980. SAID TO BE NAMED FROM THE FACT THAT POTS OF THIS SIZE WERE GIVEN TO THE TEMPLE IN THE NAME OF BAYA-BABA, A HOLY MAN WHO LIVED IN A MONASTERY IN PURI AT AN UNSPECIFIED DATE AND BEGAN THE CUSTOM OF GIVING POTS OF THIS SIZE. SAID ALTER-NATIVELY TO BE NAMED FOR KARMA-BAI, A DEVOUT LADY FROM MAHARASHTRA WHO CAME TO PURI ON PILGRIMAGE, DECIDED TO RE-MAIN, AND ORDERED POTS OF THIS SIZE TO BE OFFERED IN THE TEMPLE. CAPACITY 29 LITERS. AS FILLED WITH 5 KILOGRAMS OF COOKED RICE, SELLS IN THE TEMPLE MARKET (1980) FOR RUPEES 55/- AND FEEDS 25-40 VILLAGERS. COST (1980) 3.25- 3.65 RUPEES EACH (SELLING PRICE TO TEMPLE COOKS' ORGANI- ZATION.
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: E423314-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vessel
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 38.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 34 cm