Object class: Containers (receptacles) / Materials: Pearl (animal material) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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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 Bowl, accession number 9-13495, described as Bowl, lacquer? Iridescent mother-of-pearl, inlay on black lacquer background, silver lining 5.25" long, 2.5" high; 13.2cm long; 5.7am high, 4.5cm high in center Landscape scene on outside; old money shape; waisted boat shape; one character on each side at waist, floral band at rim July 1969 - Storage loan to Lowie Museum