Blind Man's Chess Set. Modeled in the form of Cambodian deities, based on statuary from Angkor Wat and Nokor Wat.
Figures are clearly discernible.
Each bell is set to sound a different tone, thus enabling a blind player to follow the Pawn's movement across the board. Sculpted and cast especially for the donor and his blind chess player friend by the Curator of the Museum at Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodia is a mystical land, with many legends and superstitions that would often seem very real in the eerie isolation of a city surrounded by war. Gift of N.K. Goldsmith, U.S. Air Force pilot and diplomat, 1981.