Charm
- Museum number:
- 9-22488
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090022488
- Accession number:
- Acc.2697
- Description:
- rakhi rosette; string-type charm; silver tinsel yarn forming flower motif with circle. black thread attached
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
- Collection place:
- India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India
- Collector:
- Richard Lerner
- Collection date:
- before November 1970
- Materials:
- Yarn
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Charms
- Function:
- 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
- Accession date:
- 1970
- Context of use:
- Rakhi Purnima Festival - sisters tie charm around right wrist of their brothers, in act of veneration, affection, and respect. The act, and by extention, the festival is called raksha bhanda (to tie the rakhi)
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- width 3.2 centimeters and height 2.7 centimeters
- Images:
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