Palace Doorknob
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Aug 1978
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tsering R. Lhungay
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BELL-SHAPED CAST IRON PIECE. FLORAL PIERCED WORK. HEAVILY GILDED ON OUTSIDE. UNDERLYING DRAGON DESIGN, ALMOST OBSCURED. SQUARE HOLE AT TOP, THROUGH WHICH IS PUT A TWO-PRONGED PIN WHICH HOLDS A HEAVY, GILDED LOOP. SAID BY DONOR TO BE A DOORKNOB FOR A TIBETAN PALACE, MADE IN DERGE, BROUGHT INTO NEPAL DURING 1959 TAKEOVER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E420070-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doorknob