Vintage Sarna Engraved Brass Tanga Bells

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Vintage Sarna Engraved Brass Tanga Bells These bells are number 726 and the other number lost of the nearly 1,000 bell collection of New Mexico matriarch, Lillian Yrisarri de Livingston, great-granddaughter of Don Francisco Xavier Chavez, the first governor of New Mexico when the territory came under Mexican rule in 1822. Lillian collected her bells from 1943 to her death in 1957. She was also a member of the American Bell Association at that time. For the past fifty years her bells sat undisturbed and forgotten in storage. She kept an accurate ledger detailing each of the bells and a copy of the respective journal entry will come with this bell. Many of the bells have been lost to the elements and some have completely disappeared. Her journal describes this bell as follows: "Colored Tanga Bell, India , colored hand inlaid all over bell, given to me by my good friends Ethel G. nelson & Farn G. Dawson for Easter, April-10-1955." "A Tanga is a one horse carriage with two wheels. It usually carries three passengers and a driver. When carrying ladies from one place to another or to a temple gathering, they pull the curtains down from all sides, so that the passers-by cannot see the ladies. Tanga taxi is a general way of passenger conveyance throughout India . They are licensed by the local municipality. Fancy coachmen decorate their read more
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