snuff bottle; silver frame, yak horn sides, inlay of turqoise and red colored glass or gems; silverwork around opening has lotus-leaf motif; silver chains hold lid and spoon to bottle’s body; yak horn is black; to hold and dispense snuff; snuff is spooned onto thumb, sniffed into nostrils
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
Collection place:
Tibet
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottles and Snuff bottles
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
November 16, 1970
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1987-1988 #9: Museum of Craft and Folk Art (San Francisco) (August 1987–November 2, 1987)