Necklace

Museum number:
9-12930
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Accession number:
Acc.2910
Description:
Small bundle of black-glass votive bangles. Native name and meaning: "churi" (bangle). Used singularly or in bunches by Hindus as a votive offering during a ritual puja; a strip of palm-leaf (see 9-12931) may be rolled up and have one of these slipped over it. Each bangle is approximately 2.8 cm in diameter.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection place:
Mysore, Karnataka State, India
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
December 7, 1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 9-12930, described as Small bundle of black-glass votive bangles. Native name and meaning: "churi" (bangle). Used singularly or in bunches by Hindus as a votive offering during a ritual puja; a strip of palm-leaf (see 9-12931) may be rolled up and have one of these slipped over it. Each bangle is approximately 2.8 cm in diameter.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 9-12930, described as Small bundle of black-glass votive bangles. Native name and meaning: "churi" (bangle). Used singularly or in bunches by Hindus as a votive offering during a ritual puja; a strip of palm-leaf (see 9-12931) may be rolled up and have one of these slipped over it. Each bangle is approximately 2.8 cm in diameter.

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