Ornament comprising three strips of red-dyed cane held together with bent strips of brass and bound at intervals with fine black cane into which a twill pattern is worked in yellow orchid stem. Plaited cane fastening. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/11/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Ornament comprising three strips of red-dyed cane held together with bent strips of brass and bound at intervals with fine black cane into which a twill pattern is worked in yellow orchid stem. Plaited cane fastening. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/11/2005]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland
Cultural groups: Naga
Person: Field collector Robert Gosset Woodthorpe; PRM source Edward Thomas Wilson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1898
Date collected: By 1898
Acquisition information: Donated: 1909
Materials and processes: Material Cane Plant, Material Orchid Stem Plant, Material Brass Metal, Process Twill Plaited, Process Dyed, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 54 mm, Width: max 12 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1909.21.96

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