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Description: | MANU Unknown before 1934 Tibet People's Republic of China The headdress is made form a human skull, with Chinese silk brocade decorated with shells attached.
Human skeletal material was commonly used in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist practice to demonstrate a lack of attachment to the physical world, while Chinese brocade was often used for religious equipment and decoration in monasteries.
It appears to be intended to be worn on the head, although whether this would actually have been the case is unknown.
There is a similar cap in the Cambridge Archaeology and Anthropology Museum, collected by missionaries from the Western Himalayas. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | EXIT2818 : LEONR : JEN : ASIA : FAR EAST : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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