. Report to the government of Baroda on the marine zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar . Marine animals. M llllimillimimifTTTTTTT miiummimiiTn. Edge and side views of a Bengal marriage bangle to show ornamentation in yellow upon a red-lacquered ground. From Pabna, Bengal. X 2. trary is always quite narrow, generally J to ^ inch in width, and usually of conventional scroll design, worn in a set of three on each wrist. The use of these ornamental bangles {bdla and churi) and also of the red marriage bangle is limited ahnost entirely to the thoroughly Hinduised sections of the Bengali people, toge
. Report to the government of Baroda on the marine zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar . Marine animals. M llllimillimimifTTTTTTT miiummimiiTn. Edge and side views of a Bengal marriage bangle to show ornamentation in yellow upon a red-lacquered ground. From Pabna, Bengal. X 2. trary is always quite narrow, generally J to ^ inch in width, and usually of conventional scroll design, worn in a set of three on each wrist. The use of these ornamental bangles {bdla and churi) and also of the red marriage bangle is limited ahnost entirely to the thoroughly Hinduised sections of the Bengali people, together with the Hindu communities settled in Assam, Behar and Orissa. Baishnab women, however, do not wear these bangles according to the Collector of Birbhum. Information received from a Muhammadan source indicates that women of the lower classes of this community in Dacca, Darjeeling and Assam occasionally wear chank bangles as wrist ornaments. As elsewhere in India, it is the invariable custom in Bengal in orthodox Hindu households for widows to discard all their jewellery on the death of their husbands. In the case of chank .and glass bangles, it is usual for the widow to break and throw them away on the first occasion when she bathes after her husband's death. They never. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hornell, James, 1865-1949. London : Williams and Norgate
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