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Description: | CULT unknown Tibet People's Republic of China Collected by J.W. Gregory who describes it in his book "To the Alps of Chinese Tibet : an account of a journey of exploration up to and among the snow-clad mountains of the Tibetan frontier" (1923).
"On shelves around the three cylinders stood small lumps of greyish-white clay each perhaps four inches in height, all of the same shape, which was roughly a cone with the top rounded off and a swelling at the base. Each of these was a potted lama - the complete earthly remains of a dear departed. The lama is condensed to this very compact from by grinding up his bones." | 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 : 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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