1952.6.14.11

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 Sequin, Material Metal Wire, Material Pearl

Object numbers

Accession number: 1952.6.14.11 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