Ornament

Museum number:
9-12927
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2910
Description:
Yarn amulet; short tied length of brown and white hand-spun goat's wool yarn; 2 small hanks joined together. This amulet was tied on the wrists of a bride or groom at the time of the wedding ceremony in order to ward off the evil eye. These amulets were sold in pieces, as well as halves, by vendors of religious and ritual paraphernalia. Length of each hank approximately 9 cm.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection place:
Mysore, Karnataka State, India
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Amulets and Ornaments (object genre)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
December 7, 1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Ornament, accession number 9-12927, described as Yarn amulet; short tied length of brown and white hand-spun goat's wool yarn; 2 small hanks joined together. This amulet was tied on the wrists of a bride or groom at the time of the wedding ceremony in order to ward off the evil eye. These amulets were sold in pieces, as well as halves, by vendors of religious and ritual paraphernalia. Length of each hank approximately 9 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Ornament, accession number 9-12927, described as Yarn amulet; short tied length of brown and white hand-spun goat's wool yarn; 2 small hanks joined together. This amulet was tied on the wrists of a bride or groom at the time of the wedding ceremony in order to ward off the evil eye. These amulets were sold in pieces, as well as halves, by vendors of religious and ritual paraphernalia. Length of each hank approximately 9 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 9-12927, described as Yarn amulet; short tied length of brown and white hand-spun goat's wool yarn; 2 small hanks joined together. This amulet was tied on the wrists of a bride or groom at the time of the wedding ceremony in order to ward off the evil eye. These amulets were sold in pieces, as well as halves, by vendors of religious and ritual paraphernalia. Length of each hank approximately 9 cm.

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