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 h...
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 m...
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 Tantr...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Umé) script, primarily in black ink but with some additional red ink. Some very small writing in places. Six pages with line drawing illustrations. Text identified by the local fieldworkers as...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual to protect against the dangers posed by vampiresses, ogresses or cannibals (Tib. སྲིན་མོ Wylie. srin mo) when travelling. Srin mo are dangerous flesh eating, b...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual performance to appease nagas through making a ritual offering of a Lud, a dough ransom effigy figure of a person (Tib.གླུད་ Wylie glud), or a thread cross offe...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Yang gug (Tib. གཡང་འགུགས Wylie. g.yang 'gugs) A ritual for summoning the forces of prosperity གཡང་འགུགས་པའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Si...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual for the Lord of the Earth / Earth god (Tib.ས་བདག Wylie. sa bdag) Performed to prevent annoying the Earth Lord, when building the foundations for houses and dis...