3Ms Object Biography Label – Group 1 9 November, 2009
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Whitworth Art Gallery
KHARITA (SEAL) BAG (1870-85)
This bag came to England as part of a collection of Indian silk textiles put together by Sir Thomas Wardle. It was exhibited at the Colonial & Indian Exhibition in London in 1886 and then in Manchester at the Royal Jubilee Exhibition in 1887. Sir Wardle (1831-1909) was a Victorian entrepreneur sent to India by the British government to collect such artefacts.
KHARITA (or KHALITA) is thought to be the name for a bag / purse that would have been used for containing / transporting maps or items of communication such as letters. This one in particular was used to store the wax seal of a Maharaja.
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