Ivory Bracelets Bangles Jewelry for Girls

Ivory bangles were once commonly worn in Rajasthan and Gujarat as a whole series of thin bracelets which covered the lower arm of unmarried girls and extended up the upper arm of married women. The bracelets increase in diameter, in accordance with the shape of both a woman's arm and an elephant's tusk. The ivory, once indigenousn, has long been imported from Africa; much of it was colored red with henna dye. Thankfully, since the banning of the ivory trade, most of these bangles have been replaced with plastic ones produced by local bangle makers. In Gujarat, however, women of pastoral castes such as the Rabari will still wear a large section of elephant tusk on their left arms. (In north-east India the Naga traditionally use sections of local ivory as armlets.      

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