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1884.96.16

Belt of plant leaves bound to form a ring with a leaf tassel. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/4/2005]

1884.96.16

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Collection type
Object
Description
Belt of plant leaves bound to form a ring with a leaf tassel. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/4/2005]
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1878
Date collected
?Prior to 1878
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material String, Material Shell, Material Pandanus Plant, Process Bound
Dimensions
Length: max 690 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.96.16 PR no.: 106d/ 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. Note that the green book entry has been made on the basis of geographic place and description of object. However if the object has the number has the number 11935 in reality one would expect this object to have been delivered to South Kensington Museum in early 1881 and not 1878. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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'].

Search terms: Ornament, Clothing, Cordage, Waist Ornament, Belt

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