A casket is known as peti in Gujarati. Traditionally, a peti was used to store varied items such as money, documents and even food items. The word peti is often used as a suffix along with the objects that it is used to store.
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Title: Peti (Casket)
Location: Surat, Surat, Gujarat
Type: Manjush (Storage)
Contributor: Mitraja Bais, Jay Thakkar, Samrudha Dixit, Ben Cartwright and Mansi S Rao
Rights: Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University and South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection (SADACC) Trust