- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone used in potter's outfit.
- Geographical reference
- Arunachal Pradesh Siang district Siang Valley
- Cultural groups
- Adi Minyong
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1948
- Date collected
- By 1948
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1948
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 80 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1948.1.92.3
- Research and responses
See researchers file 'Milliken' for draft of A brief history of the stone tool collections from India in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford by Sarah Milliken from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. [ZM 22/08/2008]
Search terms: Tool, Pottery, Potter's Tool, Polisher
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