Pair of wristlets of goat's hair tufts, dyed red and black. held together with cotton binding. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/8/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pair of wristlets of goat's hair tufts, dyed red and black. held together with cotton binding. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/8/2005]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland Zunheboto district Seromi
Cultural groups: Sümi Naga
Person: Maker Heyetha; Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1922
Date collected: 27 October 1922
Acquisition information: Donated: 10/1945
Materials and processes: Material Goat Hair Animal, Material Pigment, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Dyed, Process Bound
Dimensions: Diameter: max 110 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.10.91.5.1 Accession number: 1945.10.91.5.2 Other PRM accession number: 1945.10.91e
Research and responses: It is not clear whether the information about Yekhahe is given merely to provide added information about Heyetha. [SHD 12/4/2000]
This item may have been in the museum for some years before being accessioned in 1945. [SHD 12/4/2000]
Associated publications: Reproduced in colour on page 230 of The Nagas - Hill Peoples of Northeast India: Society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter, by Julian Jacobs with Alan Macfarlane, Sarah Harrison and Anita Herle (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990). [SM 21/10/2011]