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Hearst Museum object titled Amulet, accession number 9-22213a-c, described as Silver necklace with coral and silver beads and insets (a). The figure bears a vague likeness to the Chinese Kuan Yin, holding a vase. The characters on the right and left are probably meant to suggest sacred Buddhist Sanskrit (Lantsa) syllables. the central piece with the Kuan Yin is an amulet box. Inside is a paper use as a lining, with a fragment of Chinese and Tibet writing. On the bottom of the inside is a small painting on paper of a twelve armed God or Goddess. The outside is stamped with Chinese writing and bares a lable "Made in China". It is in a red jewelry case (b,c).
Hearst Museum object titled Amulet box, accession number 9-21795a,b, described as Amulet box (a) and lid (b) meant to be filled with mantras, relics, and/or sacred medicines, and worn around the neck for protection and spiritual connections with deities and Lamas. This type of decorated amulet box is worn by women, hung around the neck in the center of the chest. See: T-37 pict.
Hearst Museum object titled Amulet box, accession number 9-21869a,b, described as Amulet box(a) and lid(b), of the type worn by an affluent woman. In it she would put sacred objects such as relics of a venerated Lama (a picture or photograph, a piece of his robe, for example), sacred medicines, a small image of Buddha, mantras written on rolls of paper, and folded and thread-crossed mandalas drawn in ink on paper (such as 9-21872 and 9-21878). The amulet box is worn around the neck in the center of the chest.
Hearst Museum object titled Audience chain, accession number 9-21345, described as “Audience Chain” Four sets of 27 black beads separated by amethyst balls and strung on yellow silk cord constitute the front. Back: navy blue, stiff cord, first cased in embroidered red and white ribbon, then looped through a coin-shaped ring of brass, where they meet the lower double cord that runs through another amethyst ball as a red silk cord. Pendant starting from a third hole in this amethyst ball: three-tiered amethyst slide of decreasing width on red braided cord which runs into a black cotton braided tape (11 cm long), its other end looped through an eye in a filt-bronze plaque holding an oval turquoise. As usual, the tape-ends are secured by winding tri-colored threads around them: white - light blue - navy blue - white. Under the turquoise another black tape (16 cm long). Then a silver(?) wire ring secured by a red cord, a small crystal bead and a tear-drop shaped piece of pink quartz capped by a brass(?) bell-shaped cover. Two shoulder pendants are left on this chain. Strung on blue cords and emanating from coin-shaped rings are ten or nine, respectively, corals, the final pendants a smaller version of the pink crystal chain pendant (here grenadine and emerald, respectively). Overall length of chain: 117 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 4-2631, described as Turquoise hemispheres, parts of beads like 2630, with remnants of attachments for gold. Diameter .65 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 3-3545, described as Gray stone bead, cubical
Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 4-3423, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 3-3546, described as Green stone pendant, small, broken, rectangular
Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 3-3544, described as White stone bead, large (spindle whorl?)
Hearst Museum object titled Beads, accession number 6-20860, described as blue, carnelian, amethyst beads. Late Middle Empire

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