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Wall  Label
Title- Karuwa(watering can) and Bowls
Artist- Unknown
Date- watering can (c. 1900) and Bowl (c. 1998)
Medium- Brass/Copper and silver metal



I decided to choose this watering can and bowls for my assignment. My parents brought these bowls and watering can from Nepal before come to the New York. Watering can and bowls are related to religion. This watering can use specifically for offering water to Buddha. It is the most common type of offering on Buddhist shrines are water offering - call "Yonchap" in Tibetan. We  offer water to God always in the morning time and there are seven bowls where we pour water from the watering can one by one. And We remove the bows at the end of the of the each day, at any time before the sunset.The reason I choose this object because I have learned something  practicing Buddhism and I feel like to share a little bit to others. The main point of any offering pure motivation to cultivate generosity, and to reduce our selfishness and greed. In addition, we seek to give with an open, pure heart, with no attachment to what we are giving, and no expectation of receiving something in return. Therefore, the idea is that all of our offerings should be given freely as we would give water. However, Many Buddhist people have forgotten the purpose of offering nowadays.

In John Cotton Dana's The Gloom of the Museum he says " they become lost in their idea of a museum and forget its purpose" in other words rich people are choosing what to put in a museum because of their one piece, expensive valuable and history and they don't think the same about other class people to display in a museum something to give importance to them or their ancestor. Likewise, this Watering can and bowls holds a meaning and teach us to be a great full and generous person. However, some people are the meaning and the purpose of it.