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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Gujarat (made)

This type of extremely heavy necklet is worn by women in the pastoral communities of Saurashtra and Kutch in Gujarat, with similar examples being found in Rajasthan and Sind, in Pakistan representing the traditional area over which these nomadic pastoralists wandered.

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Categories	Jewellery Metalwork
Object type	Jewellery
Title	Jewellery (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Coiled silver
Brief description	Coiled necklet, silver, Gujarat, 20th century.
Physical description	Torque (varlo or hansuli) Coiled necklet in silver
Dimensions	Height: 18.4cm Width: 20.cm Weight: 732g
Historical context	A very similar torque is in the Waltraud Ganguly collection where it is catalogued as coming from the Rabari tribe of Gujarat.
Production	Kachchh
Summary	This type of extremely heavy necklet is worn by women in the pastoral communities of Saurashtra and Kutch in Gujarat, with similar examples being found in Rajasthan and Sind, in Pakistan representing the traditional area over which these nomadic pastoralists wandered.
Bibliographic reference	Indian Jewellery: The V&A Collection London: V&A Publishing, 2008 Number: ISBN 9781851774838 pp.30-31, pl. 2.1 GIOIELLI DALL'INDIA, dai Moghul al Novecento, Milano, 1996, page 130 no.88.
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.61-1995

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Record created	October 14, 2002
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O68461/jewellery-jewellery-unknown/

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