1884.7.24

Collection type

Object

Description

Skin vase with irregular globular body and short neck, decorated with a geometric pattern in paper. [ZM 10/8/2005]

Geographical reference

India

Asia > Southern Asia > India

Pakistan

Asia > Southern Asia > Pakistan

Punjab

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Possibly before 1874

Date collected

By 1874

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Animal Sinew, Material Paper Plant, Material Blood, Material Animal Membrane, Process Moulded, Process Decorated

Dimensions

Height: max 221 mm, Length: max 191 mm, Width: max 157 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.7.24 Other numbers: 16/ 83 PR Cat other PR nos: 3083

Associated publications

Illustrated in black and white photograph as figure 50 on plate IV of ''The Tandu Industry in Northern Nigeria and its Affinities Elsewhere', by H. Balfour, in Essays Presented to C.G. Seligman, (1934), pp. 5-18. Caption (page 18) reads: 'Plate IV. 45 = A small oil-flask, made by layering membranous material over a clay core, Patna, Bengal, from Sir R. C. Temple’s collection; 46 to 48 = two similar oil-flasks, of which number 46 is in the finished state, while 47 shows the exterior and 48 the interior of a specimen which I bisected in order to reveal the hollow clay core in situ, collected by H. E. Drake-Brockman in Mirzapur, N.-W. Provinces, in 1893; 49 = oil-vessel, sireshom, made by coating a clay core with skin-scrapings, Afghanistan, from Mrs. Courtney Bell’s collection; 50 = a thick-walled oil-jar, kupa, decorated with cut-out paper patterns appliques to the surface, Punjab, from General Pitt Rivers’ collection; 51 = an ornamentally shaped jar with cover, similarly ornamented, Multan, Punjab, collected by A. Brown, c. 1895; 52 = an ornamental flask with body of which is pierced by five “tunnels”, covered with paper patterns, Multan; 53 = a drinking-mug with similar decorative surface, Multan. The two last were formally in the Plymouth Museum. 54 = an oil-jar with gadrooned surface, N. India, from General Pitt Rivers’ collection; 55 = an oil-jar, tel kuppa, of moulded membrane, with flanges to which are attached loop-handles of cane, fitted with a duct of wood and tin for pouring the oil, Bikanir State, Rajputana, from Sir R. C. Temple’s collection, 1892; 56 = a very finely made kupa, stoutly built and very strong, decorated with a small panel of cut-out paper, the whole surface being varnished over, collected by Mrs. Leslie Saunders in Beawar, Ajmere-Mewara Province, Rajpuntana; 57 = a smaller similar flask, kupi, painted and varnished same data as the last.' [MJD 01/11/2011]

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