The metal artefact contains traces of silver, gold, brass, copper and iron. The file is used to make metal filings from this. Filings which are used medicinally, added to tsampa (barley dough) then made into edible tantric ritual offerings. Extent: One artefact. Size and dimensions of original mater...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unidentified text Title perhaps: (Tib ༄༅། །དཀོར་རོག་འདུས་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Wylie dkor rog 'dus pa bzhugs so). Extent: One unbound book consisting of thirteen folios. Size and dimensions o...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unidentified and untitled text. Extent: One unbound book consisting of two folded folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 22 cm x 7.8 cm folding to 22 cm x 15.6...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An untitled and unidentified astrological text. Extent: One unbound book consisting of four folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 26.5 cm x 8.3 cm. Condition o...
A wooden dough mould (Tib. དཔར་ཤིང་ Wylie. dpar shing, sometimes called Zan Par, though this term seems not to be used in Spiti). These moulds are used to make impressions of figures and symbols into dough offerings used in tantric rituals. The spectrum of carvings on these dough moulds include huma...
A three sided brass dagger (phur ba or dorje phur ba) wrapped in cloth. Though the face of the deity is no longer clearly recognisable, the small horse head at the top of the handle indicates this is the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva (Tib.རྟ་མགྲིན་ Wylie rta mgrin), commonly invoked in Tantric ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The title, obscured by brown tape is difficult to read but this is a incense ceremony, an important purification ritual offering incense to the deities (Tib. ༄༅། །ལྷ་བསངས་གཅེས་བཞུགས་སོ།...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page, but this is a fire offering cermony for Guru Rinpoche (Tib. པདྨ་འོད་འབར་གྱི་སྦྱིན་སྲེག་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. pad+ma 'od 'bar gyi sbyin sreg bzhugs so. Extent: One unbound book...
