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Actions	Kangri braziers Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberHC.Z.8.1 TitleKangri braziers DescriptionKangri braziers (X 2). These items form part of the ethnological collection."The kangri is a fire basket used during the cold weather by almost everyone in Kashmir, where the temperature often falls to 20 degrees below zero. The kangri is an eartherware bowl enclosed in a wicker-work basket with a handle over the top. To fill it, hot wood embers taken from a fire are placed in the bowl and covered with a layer of ashes. Water is then sprinkled on to the top to prevent the combustion becoming too active, and the bowl is held under the clothing by one hand withdrawn from the loose-sleeved garment. Children play in the streets barefoot in the snow with this basket held against the stomach and learn to arrange it skilfully at night under the one blanket which envelops the whole body and head. Accidents are frequent, fearful burns result from the upsetting of these baskets, and fires are not unknown where houses are built of wood with thatched roofs." Ref: Vaughan, 1925 BMJ II 495. "Kangri cancer has been very fully described by Neve. Since the year 1881, operations for epithelioma performed in the Kashmiri Mission Hospital have numbered 2,491; of these approximately 2000 or 84% were for kangri cancer. The disease is considerably commoner in men than in women. The average age for the onset of the cancer is 44. Kangri burn cancer is never found on the back or on the extensor surface of the limbs. It may be single or multiple, and the skin around it usually shows scarring. In the early stages, ulceration is absent, and the growth consists of a mere horny or warty thickening, beneath which an epithelial infiltration is demonstrable microscopically. The average duration of life in kangri-burn cancer is about fifteen months." Ref: E.F. Neve BMJ 1923 Vol ii 1255. 35mm Slide held in Rm. 11 Production placeINDIA Object nameKangri braziers (X 2) Object categoryMiscellaneous

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TitleKangri braziers

DescriptionKangri braziers (X 2). These items form part of the ethnological collection."The kangri is a fire basket used during the cold weather by almost everyone in Kashmir, where the temperature often falls to 20 degrees below zero. The kangri is an eartherware bowl enclosed in a wicker-work basket with a handle over the top. To fill it, hot wood embers taken from a fire are placed in the bowl and covered with a layer of ashes. Water is then sprinkled on to the top to prevent the combustion becoming too active, and the bowl is held under the clothing by one hand withdrawn from the loose-sleeved garment. Children play in the streets barefoot in the snow with this basket held against the stomach and learn to arrange it skilfully at night under the one blanket which envelops the whole body and head. Accidents are frequent, fearful burns result from the upsetting of these baskets, and fires are not unknown where houses are built of wood with thatched roofs." Ref: Vaughan, 1925 BMJ II 495. "Kangri cancer has been very fully described by Neve. Since the year 1881, operations for epithelioma performed in the Kashmiri Mission Hospital have numbered 2,491; of these approximately 2000 or 84% were for kangri cancer. The disease is considerably commoner in men than in women. The average age for the onset of the cancer is 44. Kangri burn cancer is never found on the back or on the extensor surface of the limbs. It may be single or multiple, and the skin around it usually shows scarring. In the early stages, ulceration is absent, and the growth consists of a mere horny or warty thickening, beneath which an epithelial infiltration is demonstrable microscopically. The average duration of life in kangri-burn cancer is about fifteen months." Ref: E.F. Neve BMJ 1923 Vol ii 1255. 35mm Slide held in Rm. 11

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Object nameKangri braziers (X 2)

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