Antique Earring from Orissa

Size:

Diameter appr. 2,5 cm

3,31 grams

Region:

Orissa, North-East  India

Type:

Phasia

19/20th century

Material:

Gold

Condition:

good

These earrings are for  grown up women; one is worn in the helix and one in the middle-ear-rim, mostly combined with ganthia in the lobe.

Ganguly-Earrings, page 204

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