Prayer Wheel - Hand Held
Unknown Tibetan, Tibetan
collected 1894-1897
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Barrett
38.73.14407
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
ANTH 32, AMES 26, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Kenneth Bauer, Winter 2019
Provenance
Collected by Dr. John Barrett (1866-1938, Class of 1889), during his time as the U.S. Minister to Siam, 1894-1897; bequeathed to Mr. and Mrs. John Walton Barrett [his nephew], Freeport, Illinois; given to present collection, 1938.
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