1923.67.4.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Basket caked with mud or dung on inside [.2], containing mud or dung figure [.1] and other natural objects [.3].

Geographical reference

India

Asia > Southern Asia > India

Telangana Hyderabad Secunderabad Lalaguda

Person

Field collector Edmund Henderson Hunt

PRM source Edmund Henderson Hunt

Date / Period

Date made: 01/01/1921-20/01/1921

Date collected

January 1921

Acquisition information

Donated: 1923

Materials and processes

Material Plant Nut, Material Textile, Material Cane Plant, Material Animal Dung, Material Earth, Process Modelled, Process Woven, Process Basketry

Dimensions

Length: max 90 mm, Diameter: max 350 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1923.67.4.1 Accession number: 1923.67.4.2 Accession number: 1923.67.4.3 Other numbers: 1923.1447

Research and responses

Note that no material is stated in accession book for the doll and for the coating of the inside of the basket, and while it may appear to be mud, it may in fact be cow-dung (c.f. 1923.67.1). [SD 23/3/2000]

Associated publications

Illustrated on page 57 of Amulets: A World of Secret Powers, Charms and Magic by Sheila Paine (London: Thames and Hudson, 2004) and with the following caption: "Basket containing a black magic doll intended to cause the death of Dr Hunt's laundrywoman, together with seven betel nuts, seven pan leaves, seven dried dates, some rice and a piece of ink-stained cloth representing a shroud; ..." and credited on page 186 as "Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Acc. No. 1923.67.4 ... Photo Pitt Rivers Museum". Copy in RDF. [JP 6/10/2004]

Search terms: Religion, Death, Figure, Basketry, Food and Drink, Narcotic, Plant, Religious Object, Doll Figure, Basket, Betel Accessory, Amulet, Food