Skull Bowl
19th century (made)
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ThisrRitual offering bowl is made from human bone. Such bowls symbolically represent the imagined crucible where, during meditation, practitioners transmute their own spiritual impurities into pure, higher substances.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Repousse copper and human bone |
| Brief description | Cup made from the inverted upper section of a human skull set in copper straps, Tibet, 19th century |
| Physical description | Cup made from the inverted upper section of a human skull set in copper straps and rim and raised on a copper foot. Each of the four straps is chased with two dorjes and the letters Om or Ah. The domed copper cover is decorated with a cast brass dorje terminal. Artificial turquoises decorate the copper straps and rim of the vessel. |
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| Summary | ThisrRitual offering bowl is made from human bone. Such bowls symbolically represent the imagined crucible where, during meditation, practitioners transmute their own spiritual impurities into pure, higher substances. |
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| Accession number | IM.21-1928 |
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| Record created | December 19, 2006 |
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