Description (CMS Description)
Forearm bangles
Total 17 bands
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
See original labels (attached to catalogue card). They read as follows: "'Nichla choorla'. To be worn on the fore-arm - Yes this is correct = Nichla Choorla. Kali = Black. 'Kali Mandem' made of hab, others like this are called by the same name. Lili = Nili = Blue. Their idea of what is blue and what is green is not quite ours." "'Lili Mandem' made of hab. Others like this are called by the same name." "'Dhola' made of brass (dhola)." "'Kankri'. It is made of brass." There seems to be some confusion over the white metal bangles: "'Matli'. Made of zinc ?pewter." "'Kunika Kataria' i.e. (I think) 'elbow = Kataria'. Made of zinc. I don't think he knows what zinc is, & there is none worn in . . probably some alloy of lead and tin." "'Katariya'". This and the other white rings not labelled are called by the same name 'Katariya'. It is made of zinc." "'Kankon'. Made of zinc or pewter?"
Event Date 15/7/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Description (CMS Description)
Set of twenty five bangles secured together with wire and stuffed with dried grass.
A-D: 'Four sets of forearm bangles called "nichla choorla". The rings are graduated in size and pewter (zinc?) alternate with clay ("lab"?)-coloured bangles.'
Event Date 15/7/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2016.3479 | Remedial
Event Date 8/8/2016
Author: Kirstie Williams

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

Bhil Identities

The Bhils of western and central India are the largest of the country’s Adivasi peoples. They have been valorised as noble and brave soldiers, and fought alongside Maharajas and the British. But they are also seen as ‘primitive’,
and thus marginalised. ‘Bhil’ identity is complex and contested. It covers smaller groups who proclaim their own distinctiveness and some who resist the label ‘Adivasi’ itself.

2 & 3. Bangles and anklets

Bangles made of wood and metal were worn in assemblages like that depicted in the photograph to the left. The heavy brass anklets were said to be worn by married women. Both the bangles and the anklets were mounted and strung together with wire, probably for museum display and emulating the photograph from Baron von Hügel’s collection.

Bhil. Dungarpur, Rajasthan
Collected by Henry R. Lawrence
Z 20644 C-D & Z 20645 A-B

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