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The circular piece of cane with seven metal discs strung together
was collected amongst the Adi in northeast India in the early twentieth
century. The disc was called a beyop. Girls wore the discs
suspended from the waist to form an apron. They were worn from infancy,
as soon as the baby could walk, until the birth of the woman’s
first child. The number of discs depended on the age of the wearer.
View database record 1928.69.1461
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