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English: Art specimens, mostly from Bhutan (#11 from Tibet). See legend below.
Date published 1909
Source Sikhim and Bhutan, London, 1909, between pp. 294 and 295.
Author J. Claude White (1853-1918)
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English: Legend:

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).

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