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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Tibetan
Title:Skull Cup
Date Made:early 19th century
Type:Ceremonial; Container
Materials:human cranial bone lined with silver and studded with stones and beads
Place Made:China; Tibet
Measurements:3 1/4 x 5 7/16 x 6 13/16 in.; 8.255 x 13.8113 x 17.3038 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1981.10.8
Credit Line:Gift of Jacqueline Miller-Dunnington (Jacqueline Miller, class of 1949)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art

Description:
ceremony

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