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Tamil sampler and needlework by Anna Marial.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Realia 37
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- Format:
- 3D object
- Author/Creator:
- Marial, Anna, creator.
- Language:
- English
- Tamil
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--India.
- Material culture.
- Missions--India.
- Missions.
- Christian education of girls--India.
- Christian education of girls.
- Genre:
- samplers (embroidery)
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Mallams (Oxford), in the Oxford Library Sale, 22 September 2021, lot 118.
- Physical Description:
- 4 needlework items : linen, cotton thread ; 60 x 58 cm, 17 x 6 cm, 17 x 6 cm, 26 x 4 cm
- Production:
- Puthiamputhur, India: Anna Marial, 1860.
- Language Note:
- Embroidered text in Tamil, with paper labels in English.
- Biography/History:
- Student at the Puthiamputhur mission of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in Tamil Nadu, India; as the Church Crookham Scholar she probably was supported by funds raised in the village of Church Crookham, in Hampshire, southwest of London.
- Summary:
- Sampler of the Tamil alphabet worked in red cotton thread on linen, with "Tamil Sampler worked by Anna Marial, the Church Crookham Scholar at Puthiampthur -- 1860" written in cursive script on an attached paper label. A label reading "Texts worked by Anna Marial, Church Crookham Scholar, 1860," written in cursive script by a different hand, is pinned to two smaller pieces of needlework embroidered with the text Un ciruṣṭikarai un valipattin nāḷkkaḷil niṉai (Remember your creator in the days of your youth (Ecclesiastes 12:1)), one in red and one in green thread, and one narrow piece of needlework on a ribbon backing, perhaps intended as a bookmark, with the embroidered text Karuttar ungalodirukkakkaṭavar (May the lord be with you). The large sampler and the bookmark each have remnants of matching embroidery floss knotted in one corner. (Cataloging assistance from Savita Ananthan)
- Notes:
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.
- Cited as:
- Anna Marial, Tamil Sampler and Needlework (Realia 37). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1593413054
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