- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- 1 of 30 identical bangles: thin circlet of glass spirally wound with fine ?copper wire, with flaking red lacquer on inner edge. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/1/2006]
- Geographical reference
- Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Telangana Kerala Karnataka
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Hope Department, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1871
- Date collected
- circa 1871
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1952
- Materials and processes
- Material Glass, Material Foil Metal, Material Copper Metal, Material Lac Insect Lacquer Varnish, Process Gilded, Process Lacquered Varnished
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 1.5 mm, Diameter: max 50 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1952.6.20.13
- Research and responses
These 30 bangles [1952.6.20 .1 - .30] were found tied together with string. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/1/2006]
Search terms: Ornament, Technique, Arm Ornament
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