Reliquary, ritual; silver, brass, cotton and wool cloth; used anytime by men or women; usually kept on altar and worshipped; when on tour it is carried on back with belt across shoulder; may contain imaged or relics; type of shrine made at Khamba, Tibet (fide Professor Lewis Lancaster, UCB Oriental Languages Department ca. 1976)
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
Collection place:
Tibet
Production place:
Kham, Tibet
Culture or time period:
Tibetan
Collection date:
January 1970
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
November 11, 1970
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1987-1988 #4: Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion (July 15, 1987–September 21, 1987)