Hand Prayer Wheel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 May 1988
label: Collection Date
content: 1970 to 1982
name: label: Collector
content: Arthur A. Leeper
label: Donor Name
content: Arthur A. Leeper
notes: label: Notes
content: THE HAND PRAYER WHEEL HAS A ROTATING COPPER CYLINDER WITH BRASS PLACQUES OF THE EIGHT AUSPICIOUS SYMBOLS IN TWO ROWS, AND AN ATTACHED CHAIN WITH A SMALL BRASS WEIGHT ON ITS END. ONE OF THE CONCH, AND ENDLESS KNOT PLACQUES ARE MISSING. INSIDE THE CYLINDER IS A LONG STRIP OF TIGHTLY ROLLED PAPER, WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE COLLECTOR, IS WRITTEN THE "OM-MANI-PADME-HUM" PRAYER IN THE THOUSANDS. THE CYLINDER ROTATES ON A WOODEN HANDLE WITH AN IRON AXIS RUNNING THROUGH THE CENTER TO THE FINIAL. THE TOP OF THE CYLINDER AND THE FINIAL ARE DETACHABLE. COLLECTOR DATES IT AS A 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY PIECE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tibet, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 358174
label: USNM Number
content: E423756-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Prayer-Wheel