Collection

Tibetan Shaman's Costume

Made:
before 1986 in Tibet
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Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
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Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Coat from Tibetan Shaman's costume, collected in Bhaktapur
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Horn for medicines
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Tibetan Shaman's costume, consisting of coat, hat, scarf, belt, parchment crown, hand bell, ceremonial thunderbolt, rhino horn container, thigh bone trumpet, two bone necklaces, two seed and nut necklaces, two bell necklaces, collected in Bhaktapur, Nepal, 1986

Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume, including hat, bone necklace, medicine horn and handbell, which were collected in Bhaktapur, Nepal, in 1986. Tibetan medicine is over two thousand years old and coexists in Nepal with other medical traditions such as biomedicine and Sherpa medical practices.

Details

Category:
Asian Medicine
Object Number:
1987-716
type:
shaman's costume
credit:
Purchased from the Gordon Reece Gallery

Parts

Bell necklace from Tibetan Shaman's costume

Bell necklace from Tibetan Shaman's costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt1
type:
necklace
Horn for medicines from a Tibetan medicine man’s costume

Horn for medicines from a Tibetan medicine man’s costume

Materials:
horn
Object Number:
1987-716 Pt2
type:
horn
Fur-lined hat from a Tibetan medicine man's costume

Fur-lined hat from a Tibetan medicine man's costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt4
type:
hat
Metal bell

Metal bell

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt5
type:
bell
Coat from a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Coat from a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Materials:
textile
Object Number:
1987-716 Pt6
type:
coat
Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt7
type:
scarf - costume accessory
Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt8
type:
cloth
Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt9
type:
crown - headdress
Necklace from Tibetan Shaman's costume

Necklace from Tibetan Shaman's costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt12
type:
necklace
Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt13
type:
necklace
Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt14
type:
necklace
Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Part of a Tibetan shaman’s costume

Object Number:
1987-716 Pt15
type:
necklace

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