- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Neck or head ornament made of pieces of red coral bound onto a stringwork core. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/8/2005]
- Geographical reference
- 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 Coral, Material Rope Plant, Process Bound, Process Carved, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 540 mm excluding ties
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.73.46 Other numbers: Man 43 PR no.: 127/ ? 11935
- Research and responses
This object is given both the fraction number 11935 and the date 21.1.78 in the accession book, but if my theory about the fraction numbers is correct this fraction number should match an object with a date of early 1881 not 1878 and it seems possible therefore that one or other of these is not correct. If the fraction number is correct then the match to the green book entry is incorrect and the delivery catalogue entry would support that supposition. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
- Associated publications
- JAI, 1878: 460 'Bêwa-tâ-da necklace and chaplet red coral 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']
Search terms: Ornament, Cordage, Neck Ornament, Head Ornament
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