Ornament

Museum number:

9-11077a

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Alternate number:

60 (original number) and 9-11077

Accession number:

Acc.2696

Description:

ornament

Donor:

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund

Collection place:

Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Verbatim coll. place:

India, Rajasthan, Jodhpur

Culture or time period:

Indian

Collector:

Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro

Collection date:

September 1969

Materials:

Plastic (organic material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Ornaments (object genre)

Function:

5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama

Accession date:

November 11, 1970

Context of use:

symbolizes the brother-sister tie; tied to brother's arm by sister on Raksha-Bandan day in August; the traditional threads were cotton only, but now people prefer plastic and tinsel; made by Muslims of low caste.

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Comment:

Per note, cotton string connecting ornaments was removed on 3/22/2006. Component "i" added to identify the string 2/14/2014 L. Beyer

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