box (food processing & storage); cream separator

Box with lid attached, housing apparatus for separating cream to make butter, yoghurt, and cheese. Maroon wooden box with white metal corners and fastening clips, which are broken along the hinges. Inside the box are six pieces of elastic fixed in to hold the parts of the separator down. A piece of wood from one of the corners of the box has broken off and is loose inside the box.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1988.5i
Date
1986
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 330 x 460 x 380 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; metal; paint; plastic
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
World Gallery > Asia > Himalayas - nomads, food and home
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