Archival records from Objects [19th century-Early 21st century] (EAP548-2-3)
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Charm Box. Kau (Wylie ga’u) གའུ། or Nam thak (Wylie rnam thag) རྣམ་ཐག [Mid 19th century]
A very fine copper charm box, 145 x 110 and 40 mm deep. Finely worked silver front, complete with embroidered cloth cover and waist straps.…
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Dagger Dorje Phorba (Wylie rdo rje phur pa) རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ [Mid 19th century]
Three headed (wrathful faced) dagger, the blade is also engraved with serpent design. Tsering -pa could offer no explanation for the meaning of the…
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Swords Ralti (Wylie ral gri) རལ་གྲི [Mid 19th century]
One pair of swords, 850 mm, one with finely worked handle the other with plainer handle.
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Iron pointer Chak Dhar (Wylie lcags mda') ལྕགས་མདའ [Mid 19th century]
Untwisted iron pointer with plain wooden handle. 630mm.
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Bell Drilbu (Wylie dril bu) དྲིལ་བུ [Mid 19th century]
A old brass bell, 195 mm long with a face on the upper handle of an enlightened Budhha ( according to the owner). The bell itself 90 mm across x 70…
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Conch shell chest ornament : Tonka (Wylie thong ga) ཐོང་ག [Mid 19th century]
A conch shell waistcoat, made up of four pieces of carved conch shell, each approx 100mm square, the centre of each marked with a small brass…
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Statue Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ [Late 20th century]
A modern statue of Tangtong Gyalpo, wrapped in a white Katak pierced with a trident headed skewer. Made in Kinnaur. Details in the face painted in…
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Water bowls Ting (Wylie ting) ཏིང
Six small brass water bowls (there should be seven) 75mm x 25 mm.
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Trident headed skewers Katamka (Wylie khtraMm kha) ཁཏྲཾམ་ཁ or Trishul (Wylie tri shul) ཏྲི་ཤུལ [Mid 19th century]
An old silver and iron trident headed skewer with a turquoise and coral decoration 195mm.
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Five Buddha Family (Hat) Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ [Early 19th century]
A very old five section hat made of leather with a cloth headband Each section is approximately 190 x 110mm and painted. The total lengther of the…
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Five Buddha Family (Hat) Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ [Early 21st century]
A new, modern, plastic-laminated Five Buddha Family Hat. Each section approx 120 x 195mm.
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Statue Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ [Late 20th century]
A small brass statue of the Buddha.
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Charm Box Kau (Wylie ga’u) གའུ། or Nam thak (Wylie rnam thag) རྣམ་ཐག [Mid 19th century]
A second, old charm box approx 80 x 62 mm, inlaid with gold, coral and turquoise. With embroidered cloth strap.
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Conch / (Dharma) conch Chö dun (Wylie chos dung) ཆོས་དུང [Mid 19th century]
A decorated conch shell, engraved with lines and a flower motif. 150mm long threaded with dark red cotton cloth.
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Cymbals Bubchel (Wylie sbubs ’chal) སྦུབས་འཆལ [Mid 19th century]
A mismatched pair of cymbals, approx 225 x 50mm each with a leather and woven string handle.
