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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Thighbone trumpet, museum number 9-22054, described as This is a ritual trumpet fashioned from a human thigh bone. It has a metal mouth piece made of silver andcopper. It is wrapped at the bottom with skin, perhaps human skin or leather. It is used extensively in the popular "Chod" ritual. It functions, when blown in the ritual context by a qualified yogin, to summon all living beings, including every manner of ghost and goblin, to a great feast. In the Chod ritual, the thighbone trumpet is blown at the beginning and occasionally during the procedure, and the yogin then puts it down and serves up the feast while chanting melodiously and play the large hand drum (Chod damaru) with his right hand and the ghanta bell with his left. The use of human bone is necessary as the yogin is ritually transforming his own flesh and blood into offerings suitable for the various classes of living beings. See: T-26, T-27, T-195
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Thighbone trumpet, museum number 9-8253, described as Thighbone trumpet;purple dyed leather stretched over one end;L.31.5 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Thighbone trumpet, museum number 9-12790, described as Trumpet (thighbone trumpet);human femur wrapped w/copper wire & leather;L. 31 cm. CONTEXTUSE info supplied by Prof.Lewis Lancaster,UCB Dept. of Oriental Languages, 1976
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Thighbone trumpet, museum number 9-21860, described as Trumpet fashioned from a human thigh bone; thighbone is wrapped at top and bottom with leather, and a leather thong is attached as a handle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Thighbone trumpet, museum number 9-5272, described as Trumpet of lower 2/3 of rt.human femur (Kang-Dung);brass mouthpiece over proximal end; untanned leather sewn over distal end;l. 11.25 in.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Thighbone trumpet, museum number 9-22052, described as This is a ritual trumpet fashioned from a human thigh bone. It is wrapped at the bottom with skin, perhaps human skin or leather. It is used extensively in the popular "Chod" ritual. It functions, when blown in the ritual context by a qualified yogin, to summon all living beings, including every manner of ghost and goblin, to a great feast. In the Chod ritual, the thighbone trumpet is blown at the beginning and occasionally during the procedure, and the yogin then puts it down and serves up the feast while chanting melodiously and play the large hand drum (Chod damaru) with his right hand and the ghanta bell with his left. The use of human bone is necessary as the yogin is ritually transforming his own flesh and blood into offerings suitable for the various classes of living beings. See: T-26, T-27, T-195
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Thighbone trumpet, museum number 9-21861, described as Thighbone trumpet, fitted with brass at the mouthpiece and bell, and ornamented with turquoise and coral insets. This is a ritual trumpet fashioned from a human thigh bone.