Plaques (42)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jun 1896
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George Shaw
label: Collector
content: Prof E. H. Giglioli
label: Donor Name
content: Professor Enrico H. Giglioli
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "IVORY, CARVED. REPRESENTING SIVA SCENES FROM THE THRONE OF THE MINAHAVAJAHS. THEY WERE USED IN DECORATING THE THRONE OF THE MAHARAJAHS OF TANJORE, SOUTHERN INDIA (NOW A PORTION OF THE PRESIDENCY OF MADRAS). THEY ARE PROBABLY THE WORK OF THE FOURTEENTH OR FIFTEENTH CENTURY, AND CERTAINLY PRIOR TO THE CONQUEST OF MAHRATTA TANJORE IN 1659 A.D. THE LAST MAHARAJAH OF TANJORE, SIVAJI, DIED IN OCTOBER, 1855, WITHOUT MALE ISSUE, AND HIS STATE WAS ANNEXED TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE. SHORTLY AFTERWARDS DR. GEORGE SHAW, THEN MASTER OF THE MINT AT MADRAS, RECEIVED ORDERS TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE THRONE, WHICH WAS PLATED WITH GOLD AND IVORY. THE GOLD WAS MELTED INTO INGOTS AND THE GREATER PART OF THE IVORIES CAME, AT THE DEATH OF DR. SHAW IN 1893, INTO THE POSSESSION OF PROF. E. H. GIGLIOLI. INVENTORIED 1974. "
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 030742
label: USNM Number
content: E175771-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Plaque