Waist ornament: a strip of cotton textile bound with yarn, with perforated white bivalve shells attached at intervals. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/2/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Waist ornament: a strip of cotton textile bound with yarn, with perforated white bivalve shells attached at intervals. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/2/2006]
Geographical reference: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India)
Asia > Southern Asia > Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India); Andaman Islands
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Edward Horace Man; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Possibly before 1878
Date collected: ?Prior to 1878
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Shell, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Yarn, Process Bound, Process Woven, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 920 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.73.31 Other numbers: Man 45
Associated publications: JAI, 1878: 460 'Rêkéto-tâ-da necklace chaplet waistbelt and bracelets Hemicardium Unedo shells Pl XII The above are worn by both sexes round head or neck as ornaments only and not like the Châuga-tâ (v ticket 46) in order to cure pain etc (v also no 73)' [Taken from 'List of Andamanese and Nicobarese Implements Ornaments etc presented to Major-General Lane Fox by EH Man esq and thus described by Mr Man 18th September 1877'][AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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