A string of twelve beads, six are small discs, engraved and enamelled with white design, five are cylindrical with similar engraving and enamelling and one is plain [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 25/5/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: A string of twelve beads, six are small discs, engraved and enamelled with white design, five are cylindrical with similar engraving and enamelling and one is plain [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 25/5/2005]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Kerala Malabar (Northern Kerala)
Person: Field collector Frederick Fawcett; PRM source Frederick Fawcett
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1911
Date collected: By 1911
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1911
Materials and processes: Material Cornelian Stone, Material Bead, Process Enamelled, Process Incised, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 128 mm as strung
Object numbers: Accession number: 1911.85.21 Other numbers: 21
Research and responses: Frederick Fawcett discusses various forms of tumuli in the Malabar region in his 1896 paper 'South Indian Stone Circles' in the The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Vol. 25, pp. 373-374). Although several tombs are described he does not specifically mention any he investigated himself as containing beads. The article is available online, the stable URL is http://www.jstor.org/stable/2842034. [MN 28/06/2010]