BY.T-37 (previous number) and T-37 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4737
Object count:
2
Description:
Amulet box(a) and lid(b), of the type worn by an affluent woman. In it she would put sacred objects such as relics of a venerated Lama (a picture or photograph, a piece of his robe, for example), sacred medicines, a small image of Buddha, mantras written on rolls of paper, and folded and thread-crossed mandalas drawn in ink on paper (such as 9-21872 and 9-21878). The amulet box is worn around the neck in the center of the chest.
Donor:
Estate of G. Eleanore Murray and Estate of Theos C. Bernard
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Bronze (metal), Glass (material), Gold (metal), Pearl (animal material), and Turquoise (mineral)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Amulet cases
Production date:
19th-20th century
Accession date:
March 12, 2004
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 3.175 centimeters, width 13.97 centimeters, and length 12.7 centimeters