Object Number | 32-47-14 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tibetan |
Provenience | Tibet |
Date Made | 1500-1932 |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Paper |
Technique | Woodblock Printed |
Iconography | Charms | Dharanis | Bird |
Inscription Language | Tibetan Language | Tibetan Dbu Can Script |
Description | Charms to ward off evil from a house, Beginning and ending of text published. Tibetan manuscripts. Tibetan: Tibetan dbu can script. No date or title. Text consists of charms (?) to ward off evil from a house. Poor quality locally made paper. Good condition. 14 folios on 7 sheets sewn together. 7 lines per folio side. Each folio identical. Wood block printed. Some inked too much and blurred, some not inked enough. Upper right quarter contains grid with dharanis and figures of fowl. |
Credit Line | Academy of Natural Science / University Museum Expedition to Southwest China and Tibet; Gordon T. Bowles, 1932 |
Other Number | 19 - Other Number | M17 - Levitt Number |
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