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One of a pair of anklets, green fabric backed with black velvet, covered with gold bells and tied with white cord.
Ghungroos are used in Classical Indian dance. Ghungroo jingles give a musical sound to the steps of the dancer. They are used in classical Indian dance such as kathak ,odissi, and bharatnatyam. A child dancer may wear jingles of 40 little bells but an adult’s bells may be as many as 200 bells.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
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