- country - Tibet
- materials - high-quality silver, coral, turquoise
- object - hair ornament
- object date - 19th/20th Century
- source - Els Verhey, Tribal Design, Amsterdam
An almost identical example appears on p. 30 of Tibet: a Lost World
(1978) , by Valrae Reynolds, which deals with the Newark Collection. Reynolds describes this as a man’s hair ornament, “tied to a silk or cotton scarf. This ornament was worn at a sharp angle over one eye”. See also a photo in Reynolds’s From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum (African, Asian & Oceanic Art)
(1999), p. 50. This ornament is not at all frequently seen, but distinctly a part of Tibetan culture.
