A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. མདོས་ཀྱི་གསལ་བྱེད་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་མེ་ལོངས་བཞུགས་སོ། A text explaining the different མདོས་ (wylie mdos pron.dö) which are either dough sculptures of human or animal forms, made by chowa during tantric exorcism / ransom effigy rituals: a special kind of offering thrown at a location outside the house during the ritual. Or they are thread cross structures, a tantric construction of coloured yarn and sticks made to appease spirits.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of seventeen folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 42.5 cm x 8 cm.
Condition of original material: folio sizes vary. The precise country of origin is unknown. However it is almost certain that the original text was created in Tibet, though the specific material in question may have been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.
