Bulak Nose Ornament
20th century (made)
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A gold bulak missing its sliding loop with repoussé enamel work, applied beaded wirework and granulation applied to a shaped gold backplate. The piece has a horseshoe form at the top infilled with a small triangular shape with a larger inverted triangular shape below. The enamel in yellow, green, red and blue is used to pick out certain elements of the design. Two gold rings are soldered on the back to take a sliding loop to be passed through the wearer's septum.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gold and enamel, wirework and granulation |
| Brief description | Gold and enamel bulak probably from Uttarakhand |
| Physical description | A gold bulak missing its sliding loop with repoussé enamel work, applied beaded wirework and granulation applied to a shaped gold backplate. The piece has a horseshoe form at the top infilled with a small triangular shape with a larger inverted triangular shape below. The enamel in yellow, green, red and blue is used to pick out certain elements of the design. Two gold rings are soldered on the back to take a sliding loop to be passed through the wearer's septum. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr W. Ganguly |
| Object history | This nose ring is part of the large donation of Indian folk jewellery from Dr Waltraud Ganguly which was collected over the last few decades before her death in 2015 from dealers in both India and Europe, in parallel with extensive fieldwork she carried out in the Indian Sub-Continent. |
| Historical context | This shape of bulak is noted by Dr Ganguly as being a common one in the Jaunsar-Bawar region of Uttarakhand. Traditionally it might be worn with a large-diameter nath in the left nostril. Dr Ganguly shows a photograph of a a woman from Jaunsar wearing a similar bulak tgether with a simple nose stud in her left nostril, (Ganguly,2015). |
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| Accession number | IS.352-2019 |
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| Record created | June 23, 2015 |
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