Description (Physical description)
Necklace made of small brass plates threaded onto a piece of paper string (?original)
Event Date 22/3/1995
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Part of a collection of Indian material donated by Gait, numbered E 1916.148.1-87 (from the entry in the accessions register). These items were also numbered as AR 1916.190.1-87 (from the entry in the Annual Report). Some items have since been known only by their Annual Report number and so, for the sake of consistency, the whole collection has been entered on computer as AR 1916.190.1-87. Original accessions numbers are entered in the CRN field. (Alison McKeating, April 1995)
Event Date 22/3/1995
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Necklace of brass plates strung on a piece of white ribbon, approximately 4mm thick and edged with blue (top edge) and red (bottom edge). Along the length of the ribbon is printed, in black ink: "THE AHMEDABAD GINNING & MFG. Co., LTD., AGENTS: - MESSRS. MADHOWLAL RUNCHORELAL & Co., AHMEDABAD"
Event Date 4/8/2015
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Necklace made of small brass plates threaded onto a piece of paper ribbon. The ribbon has a border of green and red. An inscription is written on the ribbon in black ink.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2016.3371 | Remedial
Event Date 1/6/2016
Author: Rachel Howie

Context (Display)
'Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia' 07/03/2017 - 22/04/2018 MAA exhibition label text reads:

Adorned bodies in Chota Nagpur

In 1916 the governor of Bihar and Orissa donated almost one hundred artefacts from the province to this Museum. Half of these, from the Chota Nagpur area, are thought to have been collected by Sarat Chandra Roy, a lawyer who had long worked with and on behalf of Adivasis in the region.

These ornaments, which Roy had described in his book The Oraons of Chota Nagpur the previous year, point to Adivasis’ connections with peoples nearby and across India. Presented here, removed from the bodies that gave them movement and sound, they call our attention to absent bodies.

5. Man’s necklace (mala)

This necklace embodies local and India-wide trade networks in which Adivasis of Chota Nagpur operated a century ago. The plates were bought at local markets and strung on ribbon made in Gujarat by the Ahmedabad Ginning and Manufacturing Company.

Santal. Chota Nagpur
Collected by Sarat Chandra Roy Donated by Sir Edward A Gait, 1916 E 1916.148.48


Event Date 22/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2017.2 | Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia
Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden