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41. EAP1221/13/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/3
Title:
མར་རྟགས ?
Scope & Content:
An animal bone "piping syringe", probably made from the lower leg bone of a sheep. The bone has a hole drilled in its end, and is filled with butter which is extruded with a stick "plunger", to create butter piping to decorate ritual dough offerings (torma). Extent: One animal bone piping syringe...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

42. EAP1221/13/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/4
Title:
ཏིང་ཤགས།
Scope & Content:
Tingshag. A pair of small hand cymbals joined together with a leather thong. Extent: One pair of small cymbals. Size and dimensions of original material: Each 7.2 cm in diameter 2 cm high. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

43. EAP1221/13/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/5
Title:
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ།
Scope & Content:
Dorje phurba. A three side iron tantric dagger with attached cloth. Three heads of the protector deity Tamdrin (Hyagrypha) the wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara. Extent: One dagger. Size and dimensions of original material: 23.5 cm long x 3 cm wide. Arrangement: All the material is kept ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
3

44. EAP1221/13/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/6
Title:
རྐང་གླིང་།
Scope & Content:
A human thighbone trumpet. A common tantric artefact. Made, according to the owner, from the arm of a 25 year old woman. (it is usually the femur). Unusually this trumpet has a section of animal horn taped to the end. Extent: One human thighbone trumpet. Size and dimensions of original material:...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1

45. EAP1221/13/2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/7
Title:
དུང་།
Scope & Content:
Two small conches. Extent: Two conches. Size and dimensions of original material: One 15 cm x 8.5 cm, the other 7.5 cm x 5 cm. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

46. EAP1221/13/2/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/8
Title:
དུང་ཆོས་དང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཟུངས་ཐག
Scope & Content:
A small conch shell, with miniature vajra and mantra thread, used together in rituals. Extent: One conch with vajra and mantra thread. Size and dimensions of original material: Conch is 7.5 cm x 5 cm. Vajra is 5,5 cm x 1,5 cm. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1

47. EAP1221/13/2/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/9
Title:
མེ་ལོང་།
Scope & Content:
A brass mirror and attached modern katak. Extent: One mirror and cloth. Size and dimensions of original material: 11.6 cm diameter and 0.5 cm deep. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

48. EAP1221/13/2/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/10
Title:
རྡོ་རྗེ་དང་དྲིལ་བུ།
Scope & Content:
A bell and vajra / dorje. Two ritual items stored and used together. Extent: One bell and one vajra. Size and dimensions of original material: Bell is 17 cm x 9cm in diameter, the vajra 12 cm long x 2.5 cm wide. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1

49. EAP1221/13/2/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/11
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A wooden dough mould, carved with figures and symbols. These include human, demonic and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and astrological and other symbols. These figures are pressed into barley dough to create impressions on the surface of ritual dough offerings used in tantric rituals. E...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
24

50. EAP1221/13/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/13/2/12
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A wooden dough mould, carved with figures and symbols. These include human, demonic and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and astrological and other symbols. These figures are pressed into barley dough to create impressions on the surface of ritual dough offerings used in tantric rituals. E...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
33