Bracelet
- Museum number:
- 9-11068a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210911068a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 281 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2696
- Description:
- Women's bangles (choorya); glass mirrors, wire, plaster, beads; diameter: 6.5 cm.
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
- Collection place:
- Varanasi (city), Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, Uttar Pradesh, Benares
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
- Collection date:
- January 1970
- Materials:
- Plaster (wire fame covered with plaster; overlay of mirrors and beads) and Wire
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bangles, Beads (pierced objects), Bracelets (jewelry), and Mirrors
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- November 11, 1970
- Context of use:
- Worn anytime on both wrists by women. Made by men.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 6.5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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