Prayer beads

Museum number:
9-21868
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Alternate number:
BY.T-36 (previous number) and T-36 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4737
Object count:
1
Description:
Prayer beads (mala), used in Tantric meditations to organize and keep track of mantras and recitations.There are one hundred and eleven beads, the standard number for a Buddhist mala. In addition there are six red coral beads. These are used as head beads and for spacer beads, often placed after the twenty first bead from the head bead on each side.
Donor:
Estate of G. Eleanore Murray and Estate of Theos C. Bernard
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Bone (material) and Coral (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Production date:
19th-20th century
Accession date:
March 12, 2004
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 127 centimeters, height 1.905 centimeters, and width 1.905 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Prayer beads, accession number 9-21868, described as Prayer beads (mala), used in Tantric meditations to organize and keep track of mantras and recitations.There are one hundred and eleven beads, the standard number for a Buddhist mala. In addition there are six red coral beads. These are used as head beads and for spacer beads, often placed after the twenty first bead from the head bead on each side.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Prayer beads, accession number 9-21868, described as Prayer beads (mala), used in Tantric meditations to organize and keep track of mantras and recitations.There are one hundred and eleven beads, the standard number for a Buddhist mala. In addition there are six red coral beads. These are used as head beads and for spacer beads, often placed after the twenty first bead from the head bead on each side.

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