Wooden Prayer Wheel

Unknown Tibetan, Tibetan

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not dated

Wood and bone

Overall: 1 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (4.7 × 22.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly

22.8.4126

Geography

Place Made: Himalayan Region, Tibet, Asia

Period

19th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Course History

REL 40, AMES 42, Visual Culture of Tibet and the Himalayas, Nancy Lin, Summer 2012

Provenance

Collected by Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts, early 1900's; given to the present collection, 1922.

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