headdress

Circular metal brooch with four row of white beads attached. Donor visited Ladakh several times between 1979 and 1986. "The woman from whom I bought the headdress was getting a new, bigger and more expensive one and was very happy to sell me her old one. The sale was dependent upon her keeping the big center turquoise headstone because that was a family heirloom; so a headstone is missing from mine."

Possibly a sunros, an ornament that consists of different tools that are needed in everyday use. Traditionally includes objects such as tweezers and tools to clean the nails and the ears

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
HC.2024.41.5
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
metal
CATEGORY
Education Handling Collection: Anthropology
LOCATION
In storage
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