Dancer's Bell
16637A
From: Sri Lanka
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 16637A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sinhalese |
| Provenience | Sri Lanka |
| Date Made | 18th Century - 1893 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Copper Alloy | Metal | Cloth | Skin |
| Description | One of two sets of bells. Worn by dancing girls-two sets of five bells. Each set attached to a skin base edged in red cloth. Bases are 13 x 10 cm. Bases are warped cloth torn, two bells detached from same base. |
| Credit Line | Purchased from the Ceylon Commissioner, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 |
| Other Number | 676 - Other Number | I-34 - Seder Number |
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