Description: A TIBETAN PHURBA TOGETHER WITH TWO NEPALESE DRUM HANDLES 18TH/19TH CENTURY
The black wooden phurba (kila) with a three-faced finial and entwined serpents on the blade's three surfaces. Together with two carved Tamang shaman's phurba-form drum handles.
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The Tibetan phurba 26cm long, the larger drum handle 43cm long and the smaller 33.4cm long.
PROVENANCE:
The two drum handles purchased in Kathmandu in 1973, the phurba purchased in Kathmandu in 1979.