Forehead Ornament

48-29-174

From: India

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 48-29-174
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Indian
Provenience India
Date Made 18th Century - 19th Century
Section Asian
Materials Gold | Glass | Cord | Wire | Paste
Technique Gilded | Inlaid
Description

Woman's forehead ornament. Gilded paste beads with glass inlay with smaller white and green glass beads outlining paste beads and as dangles. Larger central medallion above which is another string with a blue and green glass bead and a double strand of white beads. End of each set of beads wrapped in metallic thread ending in orange cotton string.

Credit Line Gift of Presbyterian Board of Missions, 1948

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