1952.6.12.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Bangle: band with wire-wound circlets on each side, elaborately ornamented with lacquer, pearls, sequins and coloured foils. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/1/2006]

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 Lac Insect Lacquer Varnish, Material Foil Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Sequin, Material Pearl

Object numbers

Accession number: 1952.6.12.2

Research and responses

These 19 bangles [1952.6.12 .1 - .19] were found together on a cylindrical mount covered with red paper. They represent a collection of different styles of bangle - some ornamented with white beads, some with foil, some plain lacquer on glass. It is assumed that the accession entry which reads "C.18 banges [tin foil, silvered wire and white beads on lacquer]" does not refer to the composition of each bangle in this group but rather the range of materials used. It is also assumed that the 19 bangles found on this mount are the "c.18" described and that the present grouping relates to the original grouping when the objects were first accessioned to the PRM. This decision was reached after discussions between myself, Alison Petch and Gali Beiner. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/1/2006]

Search terms: Ornament, Arm Ornament