Plant fibre ornament made of pandanus leaf, bound with string, with double pandanus leaf tassel, one of which is ringed and can move freely. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/4/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Plant fibre ornament made of pandanus leaf, bound with string, with double pandanus leaf tassel, one of which is ringed and can move freely. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/4/2005]
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 Palm Leaf Plant, Material Plant Leaf, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 275 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.87.59
Associated publications: JAI, 1878: 459 'Waistbelt provided with a tail of leaves (bôd-da) made from the leaves of the young screw pine (Pandanus). This description is worn by women and girls. They are invariably worn as it would be indecent to appear without one. 3 plain and 2 ornamental ones are enclosed also 2 North Andaman specimens Pl XIII' [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]