Museum of Everyday Art
The objects in the Museum are arranged in a set
of fourteen groupings.
The sequence of these groupings has been done
in a manner that reflects the cycle of life as
generally understood and lived in traditional
India.
Thus infancy is represented with toys and other
objects for a baby, followed by objects of learning
in adulthood, leading to vocational and household
duties.
Representing this process are artifacts for use
in writing, scales and measures, ovens and tongs,
kitchen accessories and also household objects
like lotas and sprouted pots, locks and latches
and miscellaneous objects. |
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Indulgences of the youth follow with objects like betel-boxes
and nut-crackers, hukahs and chillums, as also objects
of women's beauty culture.
The last stage of life is when one
has fulfilled all of one's duties and is attempting
to free oneself of all worldly attachments and engaging
in only spiritual matters. This stage is represented
by icons, mendicant's objects, amulets and ritual
accessories. The groupings are as follows:
1. Toys for children
2. Artifacts for use in writing
3. Hookahs and chillums
4. Betel-boxes and nutcrackers
5. Scales and measures
6. Lotas and spouted pots
7. Kitchen accessories
8. Ovens and tongs
9. Locks and latches
10. Miscellaneous Objects
11. Women's beauty-culture
12. Lamps and incense burners
13. Mendicant's objects, amulets and ritual accesories
14. Icons |
