Conch / (Dharma) conch: Chö dun (Wylie chos dung) ཆོས་དུང Mid 19th century

A plain undecorated conch shell. 135mm long threaded with dark red cotton cloth Another conch, 160mm long undecorated and slightly damaged. One Conch.

The material is owned by Tsering Paljor and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house. The team was given an extremely short time to photograph the archive, consequently the photography was rather rushed and we concentrated on the thangkas and the wooden printing block. Several obects that has been surveyed during the previous fieldtrip were not photographed.