Photographer: MS | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalThe Tibetan-Buddhist instrument pairs differ from each other in details - in contrast to the Tibetan cult instruments, which are built as identical pairs. The counterpart of the Sahanai VII c 1044 does not exist. VII c 1044 has seven frontal tone holes and a protruding thumb hole. The upper end of the body of the instrument is set with a heart-shaped turquoise, the funnel was coated with nickel silver. The decoration here is similar to that on the Sahanai pair VII c 1040/1041, but two long dragon tails are depicted on the back of the funnel. Instead of four additional rings, as would be usual, the body is surrounded by an equally richly decorated bronze mantle at the level of the three centre handle holes. It is not possible to determine whether this mantle is intended to conceal a later repair or whether it is part of the original condition for unknown reasons. The raw support is present, the mouthpiece is missing;
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Height: 50,5 cm
Depth: 10 cm
Width: 10 cm
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