Three leather pouches used to hold medical powders.Extent: Three leather pouches.Size and dimensions of original material: 14 cm x 6 cm; 12 cm x 5 cm; 10 cm x 5 cm.Custodial history: All items handed down from grandfather to father to son for over six generationsand probably many more.Arrangement...
Brass tweezers.Extent: One pair of brass tweezers.Size and dimensions of original material: 12 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 Chherring Dorje (n...
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...
Sections of a beautifullt ornate brass knife and sheath. Perhaps གཡུ་བ།་ (wylie g.yu ba). Extent: Three sections of a brass kife and sheath.Size and dimensions of original material: 17 x 4 cm; 5.5 x 5 cm; and 3 x 4.5 cm. Condition of original material: The knife itself is no longer in existence. ...
Two small wooden printing blocks carved with Tibetan letters used for inking letters on to the skin of the patient (for problems of the knee mainly?) The same letters are displayed on a modern block. Extent: Two very small wooden printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 4.8 x 3....
A Copper spike with twisted handle used for puncturing skin. Extent: One copper spike. Size and dimensions of original material: 31 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...
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 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...