- Title
- Gáu
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- Description
- A silver prayer box with a pointed top and decorated with repousse and engraved designs. A glass window on the front displays an unidentified statuette. This box would have been carried in the case to be worn during travel. The case is made of red wool.
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- Physical description
- 1 silver box and 1 wool case; 11.4 x 8.9 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in)
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- Subject
- Buddhism--Liturgical objects--China--Tibet Autonomous Region; Metal-work
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- Note
- This artifact was featured in El Camino College’s Anthropology Museum 2009 exhibit “Tibet: A People's Dream, Past, Present, and Future” with label copy reading: “Gilded (covered with gold foil), silver with red wool British military uniform case. When these small shrines were not being worn around the waist or over the right shoulder as a protective talisman during travel they would be kept on an altar at home."
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- Collection Location
- Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection, AR-010, A585
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- Donor
- Jim and Jeanne Pieper
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- Type
- ["Personal shrines"]
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- Keywords
- ["Buddhism","Travel shrines"]
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- Geographic Location
- Nepāl
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