Bangle: tinned iron substrate with copper sequins & foil stitched onto a white cheesecloth-covered band. Some green and red foil visible between sequins. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/11/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bangle: tinned iron substrate with copper sequins & foil stitched onto a white cheesecloth-covered band. Some green and red foil visible between sequins. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/11/2005]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Telangana Kerala Karnataka
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Hope Department, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1871
Date collected: circa 1871
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1952
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Material Textile, Material Sequin, Material Copper Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Wood Plant, Process Gilded
Dimensions: Height: max 8 mm, Diameter: max 45 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1952.6.15.8
Research and responses: These 12 bangles [1952.6.15 .1 - .12] were found together on a cylindrical mount with a sewn red velvet cover. A small pre-PRM paper label reading "596" was found attached to the string which tied this group together. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/1/2006]