- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Waist belt of bands of pandanus leaf, bound to form a ring and with four leaf tassels. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/4/2005]
- 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 String, Material Pandanus Plant, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 700 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.96.21
- Research and responses
There does not seem to be a mention of this object in the list in the Green book of Andamanese objects received at Bethnal Green on 16 and 17 January 1878 (ie a majority of those items dated 21.1.78 in the accession book) [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, Waist Ornament, Belt