Long band of ochred net with interwoven orchid stems, with dentalium shell tassels & cockle shell pendants. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/2/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Long band of ochred net with interwoven orchid stems, with dentalium shell tassels & cockle shell pendants. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/2/2006]
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 Net Textile, Material String, Material Ochre, Material Resin Plant, Process Netted, Process Strung, Process Threaded, Process Glued
Dimensions: Length: max 1150 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.73.40
Associated publications: JAI, 1878: 460 '(Râb-da) worn by both sexes as chaplets necklaces armlets etc both as an ornament and in sickness 1 North Andaman specimen enclosed PL XII' [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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