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Craftspeople often designed sandook with hidden compartments. These secret compartments would be known only to the owner and were used to keep valuables and money. This sandook also had a hidden compartment in the shelf inside, which could be accessed by a sliding shutter.
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Details
- Title: Sandook (Cabinet)
- Location: Gumtali, Jalandhar, 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: Joinery, Painting
- Region: Doaba
- Metal Craft Technique: Beating, Bending, Fittings
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