Saddle Set: Decorated Saddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Sep 1982
name: label: Collector
content: Tsering Lhungay Family
label: Donor Name
content: Tsering R. Lhungay
notes: label: Notes
content: SADDLE MADE OF SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD, W/HIGH ARCHED POMMEL & CANTLE. FRONT & BACK ARCHES & SIDE PROJECTIONS COMPLETELY COVERED W/ELABORATELY PATTERNED GILDED COPPER REPOUSSE (DRAGONS & SCROLLWORK DESIGNS) BACKED W/RED CLOTH. VERY WORN PAD EXTENDS DOWN SIDES - STUFFED BLUE & RED CLOTH, COVERED W/WHITE BROCADE W/ GOLD THREADS. NO STRAPS ATTACHED. "A RARE ARISTOCRAT'S COMPLETE SADDLE SET, GILDED, REPOUSSE, 'KHAM'."
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: 353024
label: USNM Number
content: E422278A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 51 cm