Ritual object representing a human skull. [FB 01/12/2014]

Collection type: Object
Description: Ritual object representing a human skull. [FB 01/12/2014]
Long description: Ritual object representing a human skull. The object is made from a textile reinforced with a clay-like material and then painted to resemble a human skull. It is painted white on the outside with a red line down the centre and painted red on the inside with a red cotton loop attached to one end and lengths of synthetic black fringing around one half attached through perforated holes to the bottom of the skull. Some of the interior red paint has flaked off. [FB 01/12/2014]
Geographical reference: Tibet
Asia > Eastern Asia > Tibet
Person: Field collector Schuyler Jones; PRM source Schuyler Jones
Date / Period: Date made: 1900-1995
Date collected: 1995
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1995
Materials and processes: Material Synthetic Textile, Material Pigment, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Clay, Process Painted, Process Perforated, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length: max 143 mm, Width: max 84 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1996.3.12
Research and responses: For further information see Hugh Richardson "Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year", Serindia, London 1993 (Balfour Library). See also F. Spencer Chapman Collection and David Macdonald Collection in PRM Photo Archive. [MdeA] [NM]

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