Leaf and bunch of grapes: Details of wedding ornaments

Item number according to the museum receipts book:

НВСП 37293

Name:

Leaf and bunch of grapes: Details of wedding ornaments

Dating

1997

Place of manufacture

Village of Medveditskoe, Zhirnovsky District, Volgograd Oblast

Author, manufacturer

F. Till

Material

Metal, paper, cotton threads, paraffin wax.

Manufacturing technique

Weaving, paraffin coating.

Dimensions: length, width, height or diameter (L, W, H, D)

L. 1 – 9, W. 1– 2; L. 2 – 7,5, W. 2 –22.

Description of an artifact

A sheet of green paper with a copper wire stem covered with paraffin. Bunch of grapes: six beads held together of paraffin wax on copper wires, braided with cigarette paper.

Source and date of receipt of the museum piece:

Expedition of 1997.

Inventory number given the second stage (scientific description) of bookkeeping at the museum

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