Ear Plug

22095C

From: Sri Lanka | Bintenne Forest | Makulugulla

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 22095C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Village Vedda
Provenience Sri Lanka | Bintenne Forest | Makulugulla
Section Asian
Materials Palm Leaf (uncertain) | Leaf
Description

Ear plugs made of monocot leaf, strips of leaf are rolled and tied. Very much like a palm leaf in appearance. Made of coiled palm leaf. Pair, small, worn by girl; and single, larger one of pair, worn by woman.

Credit Line Gift of William Henry Furness 3rd, Alfred Craven Harrison Jr. and Hiram M. Hiller, 1900

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