Ornament
- Museum number:
- 9-11077d
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2109011077d
- 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
- Images:
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