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Wooden cabinet

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Object

Chettiar 'pettagam'   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Chettiar 'pettagam'
label QS:Len,"Chettiar 'pettagam'"
Description
English: The 'pettagam' was essential in the 'kittangi' (Chettiar shophouse) for storing business documents, cash, accounts and personal belongings. The 'kaipeti' (hand-held box), 'mejai peti' (table box with slanted top) and the cotton bed roller for sleeping would be placed on top of the pettagam when the Chettiars closed the shop at the end of the day.
Date 1930s
date QS:P571,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Medium Merbau wood, iron
Dimensions height: 95.2 cm (37.4 in); width: 104.2 cm (41 in); diameter: 59.1 cm (23.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,95.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,104.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2386,59.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q632689
Current location
Singapore
Accession number
2006-01665
Place of creation Singapore
Credit line Gift of Mr. Subbiah Lakshmanan
References roots.gov.sg

Photograph

Description
English: Wooden cabinet (1940s), National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore.
Date Taken on 22 August 2023, 13:34:41
Source Own work
Author
Moheen Reeyad  (fl. 2010–)  wikidata:Q28709819
 
Moheen Reeyad
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Location of birth Chittagong
Work period 2010 Edit this at Wikidata–
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