Jar "Barapeta"
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: JAR WITH BULBOUS BODY AND SMALL OPENING; CRACKED FROM BEING FIRED BEFORE COMPLETELY DRY. ALSO CALLED "SASUPETA" ("MOTHER-IN-LAW'S STOMACH"). MADE BY MAGA BISOI, MALE, AGED APPROX. 46 IN NOVEMBER 1980. FIRED FOR PURPOSE OF COLLECTING AND SHIPPING ONLY; IN CEREMONIAL USE, DRIED BUT UNFIRED. SOMETIMES THROWN AS SINGLE PIECE;SOMETIMES ASSEMBLED FROM TWO "SARAS" JOINED RIM TO RIM. FOR CEREMONIAL USE, A STALK OF DUBA GRASS INSERTED IN OPENING. DISPLAYED NEAR THE SITE OF THE FIRE-OFFERING ("HOMA") REPRESENTING A WISH FOR THE HEALTH AND VIRILITY OF THE GROOM. TWO ARE REQUIRED FOR MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OF LOWER-GRADE BRAHMINS (INCLUDING SOME TEMPLE PRIESTS AND THE TEMPLE COOKS), BUT NONE IS USED FOR THE MARRIAGES OF SASANA BRAHMINS, THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ORIYA BRAHMIN. USED IN MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OF KARANA (SCRIBE) CLASS.
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: E423339-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vessel
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 8 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 7.7 cm