Northern India
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 757 objects from northern India, which date from 500 to 2003. This collection contains furniture, weapons and armour, architectural items, paintings, prints, domestic and religious objects and metalware. It also includes fans, utensils, containers, jewellery, stone and wooden carvings, hunting tools, costume, textiles and musical instruments. In addition there is also a large amount of archaeological material. This includes 107 prehistoric stone tools, with unknown provenance, purchased from RB Cairns of Edinburgh in 1896, and 25 Neolithic stone implements donated by the explorer and archaeologist Heywood Walter Seton-Karr in 1904. The largest acquisition was the purchase of 143 craft and industrial products from the 1888 Glasgow International Exhibition. Objects acquired before 1949 were often collected by expatriate soldiers, missionaries or civil servants. Among these are 15 musical instruments from East India, presented in 1903 by J Simpson Cumming of the Indian Civil Service, Naga tribal material donated by the tea planter W Rutherford, objects from the siege of Lucknow in 1857, and objects from the 1911 Abor Punitive Expedition. Northern India is a cultural region of India, which comprises twelve states and is home to the city of Delhi and the Himalayan mountain region that separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
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