banner(?) BM-As1986-Q.24

Period:Unknown Production date:20thC (early?)
Materials:leather, silk, hemp (?), amber, wax,
Technique:damask, plain weave, satin,

Dimensions:Length: 73 centimetres Width: 24 centimetres

Description:
A banner (?). Leather tube [25 cms long] stuffed with wool (?) covered with four identically shaped streamers, pear-drop shaped at the top, with alternating yellow and dark blue streamers below. Upper section made of orage damask silk cloth (lined with coarse natural cream tabby hemp (?) cloth; streamers made from satin silk cloth. Large amber bead on top, threaded through cream leather tie. Black wax seal with shield-shaped impression containing Chinese character on reverse.
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Comments:See: http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/