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Object Number
985-14-60/14448
Display Title
Playing cards
Descriptions
Object Description
Sets of playing cards, thin flat round colorful cards. Eight sets of 12 cards that include: 1 card of a deity under a canopy, 1 of similar deity without canopy and 10 others with related symbols painted on in consecutive amounts from 1-10. Four other similar partial sets totaling 20 cards, four stray cards similar to complete sets of 12. Ten larger unique cards painted with wild animals. Donor notes: "Puri district playing cards and tourist novelties-not meant for card games."
Inventory Description
Game, playing cards, circular leather disks, mutlicolored painted designs
Classification
- Game
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia
/
India
/
Orissa
Additional Geographic Terms
Puri
Materials
Leather, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.1 cm (2 11/16 x 2 11/16 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity
136
Label on object
985-14-60/14448
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Cora DuBois
(1961-1965)
Donor
Dr. Cora DuBois
(1985)
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