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Sandook is a storage furniture used to store clothes, mattresses, bedding and pillows. Valuable items like jewellery, gold, and money are also stored in hidden compartments or between the mattresses. While the use of a sandook is primarily utilitarian, it is ornamented with carvings, mouldings, and paintings.
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- Title: Sandook (Cabinet)
- Location: Amritsar, Amritsar, Punjab
- Type: Manjush (Storage)
- Contributor: Rishav Jain, Mansi S Rao, Ben Cartwright and Abhishek Ruikar
- Rights: Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University and South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection (SADACC) Trust
- Medium: Metal, Wood
- Wood Craft Technique: Carving, Joinery, Painting, Turning
- Region: Majha
- Metal Craft Technique: Beating, Bending, Fittings, Painting
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