charm-box, shrine shaped; a) box has copper sides, repousse silver front or cover with Buddhistic symbols including endless knot, conch shell; central cut-out area in front for image (missing); 2 metal loops on each side; b) copper back, shrine-shaped; container for charms; worn on journeys and kept on the household altar at other times. Thong (missing) would pass through metal loops. According to Professor Lewis Lancaster, Oriental Languages Department, UC Berkeley (ca. 1976) this type of charm box is made in Nepal
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Tsede Kazi
Collection place:
Tibet
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1973
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1982-1983 #40: San Francisco State University (April 21, 1983–July 11, 1983) and S1987-1988 #9: Museum of Craft and Folk Art (San Francisco) (August 1987–November 2, 1987)