Net ornament with made from plant fibre with decorative tassels at one end threaded with ?orchid stem or ?shell. [FB 05/02/2015]

Collection type: Object
Description: Net ornament with made from plant fibre with decorative tassels at one end threaded with ?orchid stem or ?shell. [FB 05/02/2015]
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 String, Material Orchid Stem Plant, Material Net Textile, Material Plant Stem, Process Netted, Process Strung, Process Tied
Dimensions: Depth: max 12 mm, Width: max 180 mm, Length: max 800 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.96.25 Other numbers: 34
Associated publications: JAI, 1878: 460 '(Râb-da) worn by both sexes as chaplets necklaces armlets etc both as an ornament and in sickness 1. North Andaman specimen enclosed' [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]