Collection place: Bhutan / Loans: S1987-1988 #4: Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion (July 15, 1987–September 21, 1987) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Trumpet, accession number 9-11943, described as trumpet, ritual; twisted animal horn, brass mouthpiece and opening which are fitted onto either end of horn; part of brass is worked ornamentally; brass is silver- or yellow-colored; 2 strips of brass run down spiral of horn; rings for cord attachment; (?) as ritual musical instrument, in Buddhist ceremonies; very scarce, very sacred “Bodhisattva horn” of an animal in nwhich form a Bodhisattva was voluntarily reborn. Blown by a head lama at tima of assembly of monks for teaching.

Hearst Museum object titled Wine container, accession number 9-9082, described as Container with brass mountings; 3 brass rings (for incomplete leather carrying strap); For wine and water on journeys. According to Cristina Kessler Noble (1985) this is a Tibetan Bighorn Sheep horn, a very rare, endangered species known as argoli or nyan in Tibet. Horns can be as large as one foot in diameter. Animal may be extinct in the wild. Precise information on species status and photographs of living animals in zoo collections available from Rodney Jackson, the Snow Leopard Project, c/o National Geographic or c/o Ms. Kessler.