Prayer Wheel Item Number: N4.1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Dark brown-black cylindrical metal object covered in repousse devotional prayer in Tibetan script; a small rounded finial is featured on the top, and a metal chain with a similar finial is attached to the side. Cylinder is mounted on short metal stick, about which it turns.
Cultural Context
used as a means of worship.
Item History
- Made in Tibet
- Owned by Union College
- Received from Union College (Donor) during 1960
What
- Name
- Prayer Wheel
- Identification Number
- N4.1
- Type of Item
- prayer wheel
- Material
- brass metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- repousse
- Overall
- height 22.0 cm, diameter 6.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Tibetan
- Previous Owner
- Union College
- Received from
- Union College (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Tibet
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1960
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 0018/0001