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APPENDIX IV

DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ART SPECIMENS ILLUSTRATED IN CHAPTER XXIII

Plate I

1. Pierced copper-gilt ornaments used with a rice puja (Bhutan).

2. Copper teapot, with silver mounts (Bhutan).

3. Brass purpa or demon dagger used at services in Northern Buddhist monasteries (Bhutan).

4 and 9. Wood, silver, and silver-gilt gyeling (trumpets) used in temples (Bhutan).

5. Dagger with open-work, pierced, and embossed silver and silver-gilt sheath, set with turquoise (Bhutan).

6. Embossed silver and silver-gilt pan-box, set with coral and turquoise (Bhutan).

7. Temple bell, cast in Bhutan.

8. Sword with silver and silver-gilt scabbard, and silver-mounted leather belt with silk tassels (Bhutan).

10. Wine-flask made from a mythun horn mounted in copper (Bhutan).

11. Brass dorji, or thunderbolt, used by lamas at services (Tibet).


Plate II

1, 3, 5, 13. Ginger-jars, plate, and bottle brought from Lhasa (China).

2 and 4. Brass cymbals (Tibet).

6. Steel helmet (Bhutan).

7 and 11. Copper embossed ladles used to pour oil on bodies during cremation (Tibet).

8. Small skull drum (Tibet).

9. Silver-gilt hat ornament, set with turquoise and carbuncle (Shigatse, Tibet).

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