Context (CMS Context)
Found unnumbered in previous box (12/11/2014) with similar pendants from Frederick Oscar Lechmere-Oertel & Sir Charles Pawsey. Has an old 'Pawsey' label, which reads 'Pawsey Abor' & the on reverse 'dup'. However, other pendants in this box from Lechmere-Oertel have had Pawsey labels attached to them in the past & these labels may have been variously mistakenly attached. This pendant is likely to have been donated by either Lechmere-Oertel or Pawsey.
Event Date 3/2/2015
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Disc pendant ('enyop') of copper alloy worn on a waistbelt.
Event Date 3/2/2015
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Disc pendant.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2016.3439 | Surface Clean
Event Date 14/7/2016
Author: Rachel Howie

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

A reassembled onyop

The pieces of this artefact came here gradually
over a period of 70 years, from several collectors. They were described as ‘pendants’ and thought
to come in pairs. Two were labeled ‘duplicates’ that could be disposed of.

In fact they are pieces of the girdles worn by young women in two Adi communities in Northeast India: the Galo and Minyong. Known as onyop (Galo) or enyop (Minyong), they were traditionally worn beneath the clothes up until the birth of the woman’s first child. Although no longer worn in this way, they remain objects of value, and are beginning to be re-used and re-interpreted as expressions of identity and fashion accessories.

Galo or Minyong (Adi). Arunachal Pradesh
Collected by F.O. Lechmere-Oertel (1930.1287 A-B), Charles Pawsey (1953.428 A-B), Karen Sparck-Jones and unknown donor(s).

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