Featured Ancient Bracelet Found in Thailand: Material and Purpose Inquiry

I would like to know more about this bracelet that was found in Thailand 40 years ago during an excavation. Can you explain what material it is made from and what its purpose or function might have been?

 

What are it's measurements?

 

I wonder if it is terracotta.
What do you know about the excavation, and whereabouts in Thailand was it?

 

A bit more information could be helpful, as mirana and Any Jewelry have suggested. Also, of the photos you have posted, which best represent the color of the object - the reddish ones or the whiter ones?

That said, the striations, slight porosity visible on the edges, and what looks like a slightly conical shape might suggest the material is a type of sea shell -

 

Ditto-First thing popped in my mind was shell,like abalone,which may/may not grow in Thailand.
PS-And far as I know,there's no conical Abalone.

 

Ahh, but there could be...if you founded a new-age music group with the catchy name Conical Abalone.
I've taken the liberty of registering that as a Domain name, an' a Global Trademark as well.
We should talk seriously about a contract allowing your limited use of either of those immediately valuable assets in your new endeavor, Bosko...Whadya Think o' That?

 

Love the name-sounds like a band I would've been in 60 years ago,breakin' strings and lookin' for Luuuv.

 

r we certain , that this is indeed a bracelet ?

 

I was wondering the same thing...

 

That was my thought too. Old bracelets are much smaller than modern ones, and I don't know any culture that made jewelry bound to get banged from a material that couldn't take at least a little banging.

 

Not if they are upper arm bracelets or anklets.

 

Possible, but you still have to wonder. I associate grooved terra cotta more with Chia Pets than jewelry.

 

There was a type of currency made from giant clam shells used in the South Pacific that looks somewhat similar -


https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1902-0603-18?selectedImageId=261549001

And a shell bracelet, from the Loyalty Islands -


https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1913-1115-29

And this, from Cambodia, which the museum identifies as stone -


https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1890-0208-33

 

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