Rug
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Apr 1988
label: Collection Date
content: 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tsering R. Lhungay
notes: label: Notes
content: Small pile rug w/multi colored designs, all on dark green background. Outer border has stylized Chinese Buddhist symbols and symbols of scholarship, intertwined with floating banners on ceremonial scarfs. Thin inner pink and red border with right and left facing swastikas in each corner. Inner design of two phoenixes, flowers and four more symbols. No fringe. Considered a "meditation mat" by donor. According to Paul Taylor, curator of Asian Ethnology, probably made ca. 1920-1959.
label: Notes
content: Note: The swastika is an old symbol in the Buddhist religion and in Tibetan culture. It is a protective device used as a blessing or "auspicious sign." When one swastika is joined to another to form a chain it can be used as a border or protective boundary on clothing, carpets and other household items.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
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: 358149
label: USNM Number
content: E423973-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rug
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 83 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 56 cm