- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Conch shell bead, ground down and partially perforated. Attached to a board with 2017.2.1 - .7, which is within an ex-display case. [ASh [OPS move] 6/1/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Angami Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 18/09/1922
- Date collected
- 18 September 1922
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1923 Found unentered: 06/01/2017
- Materials and processes
- Material Conch Shell, Process Ground, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 22 mm, Length: max 125 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2017.2.2 Other numbers: 2
- Associated publications
- See entry in Henry Balfour's diary for 18 September 1922 [in PRM Manuscripts collection]. "...I watched some of the men making long, barrel-shaped, beads of conch-shell, by grinding the columella on the wetted surface of a saddle-shaped stone, + drilling with a hand-twirled drill with long point of wire (or sometimes an old umbrella spoke). [sketch] A split wooden clamp used for holding the shell while being ground or drilled. (held with the feet for the latter purpose). Bead-making + trading in beads is a great speciality at KHONOMA. I bought a bead-making outfit (except for the grind stone) for 1 1/2 R., +, later, some unfinished + finished beads for 1 R. each...." https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/manuscripts/balfourdiaries1922.html [MdeA [OPS move] 6/1/2017]
2017.2.2
Conch shell bead, ground down and partially perforated. Attached to a board with 2017.2.1 - .7, which is within an ex-display case. [ASh [OPS move] 6/1/2017]
2017.2.2
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