Curved pottery rod, tapering and with two rows of deeply imprinted circles. [AF [OPS Move] 22/3/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Curved pottery rod, tapering and with two rows of deeply imprinted circles. [AF [OPS Move] 22/3/2017]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Tamil Nadu Nilgiris District Nilgiri Hills [Nilgherry Hills, Nilghiri Hills]
Person: Field collector Griffith Evans; PRM source Griffith Evans
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1881
Date collected: 1881
Acquisition information: Donated: 1930
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Impressed, Process Fire-Hardened
Dimensions: Diameter: max 30 mm, Length: max 163 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1930.35.5
Associated publications: Referred to on page 488 of 'India and Sri Lanka', by Dan Hicks, Michael Petraglia and Nicole Boivin, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 482-503. Hicks, Petraglia and Boivin writes: ‘Also recorded as from a cairn ‘in the Toda country, Nilghiri Hills’ are 4 ceramic objects, including a figures of an animal, collected by Griffith Evans in 1881, and donated to the PRM in 1930 (1930.35.2–5).’ [MJD (Verve) 11/1/2016]

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