Plant fibre ornament, racquet shaped waist belt made of string bound palm leaf with leaf strip tassel [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/4/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Plant fibre ornament, racquet shaped waist belt made of string bound palm leaf with leaf strip tassel [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 Found unentered: 2005
Materials and processes: Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Plant Leaf, Material String, Process Bound
Dimensions: Diameter: max 275 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.140.641 Other numbers: 28
Associated publications: JAI, 1878: 459 'Waistbelt as worn by men and boys (also called Bôd-da) 4 specimens are 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'].