- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bangle: band covered with yellow lacquer with a strip of crimped ?copper foil along the centre. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/1/2006]
- 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 Lac Insect Lacquer Varnish, Material Copper Metal
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1952.6.14.3 Other numbers: 586
- Research and responses
These 11 bangles [1952.6.14 .1 - .11] were found together on a cylindrical mount covered with sewn red and white cloth (?cotton). They represent a collection of different styles of bangle - some are decorated with pearls, some with just foil. It is assumed that the accession entry which reads "C.12 bangles, [tin foil, silvered wire and white beads on lacquer], and with tiny seed pearls" does not refer to the composition of each bangle in this group but rather the range of materials used. Since only 11 bangles were found on this mount, it has also been assumed that this is the extent of the accession group, but it is possible that more bangles from elsewhere may actually have come off this mount at some point. 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