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- Museum number
- 2003,0717,0.1
- Description
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Sheet of hand-made paper printed with an amulet design, using a wooden block. The paper is made from the pulp of the daphne bush. The designs are of a demonic, simian figure which is chained with strings of text in Tibetan script. The figure holds a peacock feather in his right hand and a flowering branch in his left; his feet end in claws. He is in a state of sexual arousal. The print appears twice on the sheet along with two impressions (the first rather faint) of a strip of Tibetan text which appears at the side of the block. The sheet of paper is wragged and uneven at the edges.
Prepared for TRB at the Thongmen Gompa, to the east of Tawang.
- Production date
- February 2003
- Dimensions
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Height: 52.50 centimetres
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Width: 64.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Acquisition notes
- The Thongmen shrine is made up of two basic elements - 1) the shrine itself and 2) nearby the living quarters of the monk who comes for upwards of three years from the Tawang Gompa to act as guardian of the shrine, and to minister to the many pilgrims who come up from Tawang. It was this monk who made the impressions for TRB.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2003,0717,0.1