Prayer Beads
32-47-15
From: Tibet
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 32-47-15 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tibetan | Buddhist |
| Provenience | Tibet |
| Date Made | 15th Century - 1932 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood | Copper | Glass | Brass | Carnelian (uncertain) |
| Description | Wooden disks separated by large carnelian beads: three long pendant strings of copper beads terminating in a disc. 3 short pendants of glass and carnelian bedas, one terminating in a brass cylinder [GMB 1939] Prototype of Mandarin chain [SVRC 1955] |
| Credit Line | Academy of Natural Science / University Museum Expedition to Southwest China and Tibet; Gordon T. Bowles, 1932 |
| Other Number | 16 - Other Number |
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