Silver chatelaine with small brush, tweezers, ear scoop, nail cleaner and toothpick. Filigree work decorated with green and coral? beads. [JP 31/10/2001]

Collection type: Object
Description: Silver chatelaine with small brush, tweezers, ear scoop, nail cleaner and toothpick. Filigree work decorated with green and coral? beads. [JP 31/10/2001]
Geographical reference: Tibet
Asia > Eastern Asia > Tibet; India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nepal
Asia > Southern Asia > Nepal; Tibetan Border
Cultural groups: Lepcha
Person: Field collector Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael; PRM source Louis Colville Gray Clarke
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1938
Date collected: By 1938
Acquisition information: Donated: 1938
Materials and processes: Material Silver Metal, Material Bead, Material Coral, Process Filigree
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.1.26
Associated publications: Mentioned in L.C.G, Clarke's essay 'Modern Survivals of the Sumerian Chatelaine' in Essays presented to C. G. Seligman, edited by Evans Pritchard, Firth, Schapera and Malinowski, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner & Co (1934), p. 43: 'I have a fine long silver chatelaine set with turquoise and coral, from the Lepchas on the Tibetan borders, in which this implement [sickle-shaped toothpick] appears together with the ordinarypointed toothpick, tweezers and an ear-pick, and small brush. This type, I believe, is found in Kazzan graves of ninth century A. D.' (note: this curve-ended tool is more likely to be a nail cleaner than another toothpick) [HH 16/12/2010]

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