Receptacle For Offerings
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 May 1895
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CHURTEN" (MODEL). CLAY, GILDED." FROM CARD: 175,160A. RECEPTACLE FOR OFFERINGS (CHURTEN OF TSA TSA KANG).-MODEL OF CLAY, GILDED. THE BASE IS OF SQUARED BLOCKS, ABOVE WHICH IS A DOME SURMOUNTED BY BLOCKS, AND ROUNDED SECTIONS, TERMINATING IN A CONE. HEIGHT, 6 5/8 INCHES. LADAKH. 175,160. GIFT OF DR. W. L. ABBOTT. THE STRUCTURE, OF WHICH THIS IS A MODEL, IS PLACED BEFORE THE ENTRANCE OF A LAMASERY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENSHRINING THE TSA TSA OFFERINGS. INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ladakh (not certain), Kashmir, India, 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: 029359
label: USNM Number
content: E175160-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Offering
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 16.828 cm