Prayer Flag
Unknown Tibetan, Tibetan
mid-20th century
Woodcut on handmade Lokta paper
Block: 13 × 14 1/4 in. (33 × 36.2 cm)
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 23 1/2 in. (22.5 × 59.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ian Alsop, Class of 1969
PR.972.117.11
Geography
Place Made: Himalayan Region, Tibet, Asia
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 32, AMES 26, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Sienna Craig, Spring 2013
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, Fall 2014
ANTH 32, AMES 26, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Kenneth Bauer, Fall 2014
ANTH 32, AMES 26, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Kenneth Bauer, Winter 2019
ANTH 32, Anthropology of Tibet and Himalayas, Kenneth Bauer, Summer 2020
Provenance
Collected by Ian Alsop in Nepal, about 1972; given to present collection, 1972.
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