THE CHANK BANGLE INDUSTRY. 
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and value of the association of the bangle fragments with undoubted neolithic arti- 
facts are largely impaired. 
It may be remarked in passing that the Kotegallu and Rawalkonda bangle frag- 
ments are of the crudest patterns and show no signs of incised carving. 
Kistna District. 
In Southern India, apart from the southern region of the Deccan, the only find of 
chank bangle remains has been at Gudivada in Kistna District. The two fragments 
there found are without decoration, and their approximate age is more easily assign- 
able than that of any specimens from other localities ; the associated objects are 
undoubtedly early Buddhist in their origin, consisting as they do of four lead coins, a 
terracotta figurine head modelled on classic lines, earthen spindle whorls, and several 
polished black potsherds, one piece having distinctive decoration similar to a fragment 
found near Srinivaspur in Mysore associated with several fragments of chank bangles. 
Gujarat and Kathiawar. 
Mr. Bruce Foote’s labours prove that the custom of using chank bangles was 
widely spread and that chank-bangle factories were numerous in these two provinces 
in ancient times. 
The finds which he records are as follows : — - 
In Kathiawar : — - 
(a) Damnagar, Amreli Prant. — In the fields (presumably upon the surface) north 
of the camping tope at this town a great number of chank bangles in a fragmentary 
condition were found, and of these 41 pieces are represented in the Museum collection. 
Three working fragments were also found at the same place, together with a couple of 
cowries and a Trochus shell ground upon three sides. Associated were such neoliths 
as a basalt corncrusher, a bloodstone hammer, and chert and agate cores. 
( b ) Babapur. — At this village, situated 13 miles westward of Amreli, the alluvium 
of the left bank of the Shitranji river yielded a large and important series of neolithic 
chert flakes, scrapers, slingstones, and cores in association with 13 fragments of finished 
chank bangles, together with two working fragments and part of the columella of a 
chank. Several of the flint flakes are worked upon one or both edges, and one of the 
bangle fragments exhibits a chaste design executed with considerable delicacy (pi. xvi, 
fig. 3615-1). The other bangles are of plain and crude design. 
(c) Ambavalli. — Seventy-one fragments of broken bangles from an old site at this 
place are represented in the Museum collection (Nos. 3622-1 to 65 and 81-89). Of these 
the greater number are ornamented by pattern grooving and many show an elabora- 
tion of design as great as those now manufactured in Bengal. The designs in many 
instances are precisely the same as those in vogue to-day. Seventeen of the finest 
examples are shown on pi. xvi, borrowed from the Foote catalogue. 
Associated with these bangle fragments were numerous portions of sawn sections 
of chank shells, constituting the rough working material required by the bangle 
carver (pi. xvi, fig. 3622-64) ; 33 fragments are shown (Nos. 3622-63 to 65 and 90 to 119). 
