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1952.6.20.17

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]

1952.6.20.17

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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: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; 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: 1952.6.20.17
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]

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