Mirror Of Divination
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Aug 1978
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tsering R. Lhungay
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CIRCULAR BRASS PLATE, SLIGHTLY CONCAVE. LOOP FOR HANGING RIVETED THROUGH ONE END, WITH ROUGH SCALLOPED ENGRAVED LINES. WRAPPED IN PAPER. POSSIBLY HUNG FROM SPOUT OF THE HOLY WATER VASE. THE LAMA "CATCHES" THE IMAGE OF THE GOOD IN THE MIRROW, THEN POURS HOLY WATER OVER THE MIRROR TO TRANSFER THE ESSENCE INTO THE WATER. REFERENCE: NEWARK CATALOGUE, VOL. 2, P. 42."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tibet, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tibetan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 332885
label: USNM Number
content: E420069-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mirror