Objects from India

 

Rosemarie Zanger´s Indian Collection comprises objects that she received as presents from her Pen-pal Fili Patel from Bombay (nowadays Mumbai), the capital of India. Thanks to the efforts of the US Military Government in the Western-german occupation zones during their re-education ("denazification") campaign, school-children and young people became pen pals in the late 1940s and early 1950s to establish new contacts for Germans to people around the world that were not influenced by war events to rebuild.

Family Photography of the Patel Family from Bombay

7.6 x 7.0 cms

Photography of Phirozshah Mehta Road, Bombay

9.0 x 14.0 cms

Bronce shoe with red colour inlay

9,22 cms length

Probably one of a pair of shoes, the second is actually missing

Bronze 20 years calendar with stand

7,75 cms diameter

Bronce gong with wooden sound stick

The carrier, a female bronce statuette, is actually missing

9,0 cms gong diameter

Ivory Box with Ivory animal miniatures

saved inside a seed capsule with ivory lid

Seed capsule with lid height 1,08 cms

8 Ivory animal miniature collection in seed capsule with ivory lid

Lion, Elephant, Camel, Water-Buffalo, Horse, Dog, Cow, Pig

Wooden chest with carvings of religious motifs

Ivory Buddah Statuette

2,14 cms Height

The Object probably doesn´t belong to the presents that Fili Patel initially sent to Rosemarie Zanger during the 1950ies but entered later the India Collection