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1. EAP1221/6/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/6/2/5
Title:
Perhaps པི་རུ་
Scope & Content:
Two animal horn tips. Extent: Two animal horn tips. Size and dimensions of original material: 6.5 cm and 4,3 cm long. Custodial history: All items handed down from grandfather to father to son for over six generationsand probably many more. Arrangement: All items are kept in the prayer room of...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1

2. EAP1221/8/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/1
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
16

3. EAP1221/8/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/3
Title:
ཕུར་བ་
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1

4. EAP1221/10/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/1
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block, for printing an image of a single large figure on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a protection from malicious and evil spirits. The carving is rich with detail: zodiacal year signs, astrological trigrams, animal figures and mantra text. Ca...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
3

5. 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

6. 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

7. EAP1221/14/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/14/2/2
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A flat wooden dough mould carved on one side only. It has several carvings of astrological symbols and a line of humanoid, animal headed creatures: shapes and figures that are pressed into dough offerings (torma) during specific tantric rituals. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Size and dimension...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
30

8. EAP1221/16/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/16/2/1
Title:
པིར་རུ
Scope & Content:
Medical suction cups. A collection of five suction cups: two brass cones and three animal horn tips that used for "cupping" the technique of applying a vacuum to remove bad blood (black blood). The cup is applied to the skin for half an hour, the hole in the tip of the cup sealed for that time wi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

9. EAP1221/18/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/2/3
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A large wooden printing block. Carved on one side only with three separate carvings. The two carvings at either end of the block are designed to be printed on to paper or cloth, inked with a soot and water solution. One is a demon figure with feet chained, the other an animal, probably a yak. The...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
5

10. EAP1221/19/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/19/4/1
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Carved with Tibetan text, probably a mantra, on one side and the six syllable mantra and the twelve animals, the twelve year signs of the Tibetan calendar on the other. Ext...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
16