- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Waist cord of twisted red creeper bark covered with yellow orchid skin. The cord has been coiled. [MOBB [OPS move] 16/1/2017]
- 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 Plant, Material Bark Wood Plant, Material Orchid Stem Plant, Material Creeper Plant, Material Plant Stem, Process Twisted, Process Split
- Dimensions
- Diameter 280 mm coiled, approx
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.87.43 PR no.: 111/ 11935
- Associated publications
- JAI, 1878: 462 'Râ-da Bark of a creeper. This is not very plentiful It is used in making an ornamental cord (v specimen sent) for wearing round the waist. It is also sometimes used interweaved with the fibre of the Âlaba' (v no 58) for the same purpose. It is also occasionally interweaved with the fibre ;Yôlta' (v no 59) in order to make ornamental fastenings for arrows necklaces Kôwaia (v 24) etc' [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]
Search terms: Ornament, Cordage, Waist Ornament