Pictorial "zanpar" · Tibet · ID: 3033543
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Size
L: 23 cm, H: 9 cm
L: 9.1 inch, H: 3.5 inch
Description
flat wooden plank, brown patina, featuring 18 pictorial glyphs of anthropho-zoomorphic beings, deamons and human figures (Europeans), slightly dam., on base;
“tsampa” (barley meal and yak butter dough) was pressed into the appropriate images to produce ritual sacrificial offerings for good fortune and protection from malevolent spirits that often create disorder (according to R. Brundage, “artyeti”).
The object Pictorial “zanpar” with the object ID 3033543 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 32.
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