| Object Number | 32-47-16 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tibetan |
| Provenience | Tibet |
| Period | 19th Century |
| Date Made | 1800 - 1932 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Wood | Brass | Cowry Shell | Glass | Leather |
| Description | Prayer beads (mala). Wooden balls with two pendants of small brass beads strung on leather thong. One cowry shell and three glass beads. Some Buddhists hold a string of 108 beads, called a mala, while they meditate. The beads help keep track of the 108 times they repeat a mantra-a syllable, word, or phrase used during meditation. |
| Length | 40 cm |
| Credit Line | Academy of Natural Science / University Museum Expedition to Southwest China and Tibet; Gordon T. Bowles, 1932 |
| Other Number | 14 - Other Number |
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