- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone bead
- Cultural groups
- Santal
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1930
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1930
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Agate Stone, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 10 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1930.19.47
- Research and responses
Parganas are linked territorial units with a hereditary headmen, made up of groups of villages. [Encyclopaedia Britannica Online] [CF 11/10/2001]
- Associated publications
- This object was featured in the Museum’s ‘web gallery’ (‘Selected Objects from the Lower Gallery’) produced during the DCF-funded ‘What’s Upstairs?’ project, 2004–2006, with the following caption: ‘In many cultures, beads have been used for protection. These ancient agate beads from Bengal were used by Santal people in the early twentieth century as amulets against dysentery.
1930.19.47
Stone bead
On display
1930.19.47
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