Saddle Decorations
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Aug 1978
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tsering R. Lhungay
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A. TWO LARGE CRESCENT-SHAPED PIECES, MADE OF REPOUSSE AND PIERCED COPPER SHEETING, WITH HEAVY GILT OVERLAY. ONE FOR FRONT OF SADDLE, (POMMEL) AND ONE FOR BACK (CANTLE). OVER-ALL DESIGNS OF LIONS, GARUDA, DRAGONS, DEER AND BIRD, WITH ELABORATE SCROLL WORK BACKGROUND. B. FOUR SMALLER PIECES, HALF-CIRCLES, FOR EACH END OF SIDE BOARDS. DRAGON DESIGNS PLUS SCROLLWORK SAME TECHNIQUE AS ABOVE, FROM DERGE, BROUGHT INTO NEPAL DURING 1959 TAKEOVER IN TIBET, FOR ARISTOCRATIC CEREMONIAL USE, FROM LHUNGAY FAMILY COLLECTIONS."
label: Notes
content: Color digital neg. #2005-22910 is view of pommel plate with two small end-board plates below. Color digital neg. #2005-22911 is detail of center section of pommel plate showing garuda. Color digital neg. #2005-22912 is view of cantle plate with two small end-board plates below. Illus. p. 240 & 241 in "Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet", by Donald LaRocca, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006. Objects are extensively described in the accompanying text on p. 240.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Tibet, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tibetan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 332885
label: USNM Number
content: E420066-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle Plate
physicalDescription: label: Height - Pommel
content: 27.9 cm
label: Width - Pommel
content: 38.4 cm
label: Height - Cantle
content: 31.4 cm
label: Width - Cantle
content: 41.9 cm
label: Height - Front End-board Plates
content: 14.6 cm
label: Width - Front End-board Plates
content: 9.5 cm
label: Height - Back End-board Plates
content: 17.1 cm
label: Width - Back End-board Plates
content: 10.2 cm