Squares and animals representing astrological signs for Tibetan divination. Watercolour or distemper painting, Tibet.

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744201i
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1 painting : watercolour or distemper on cloth ; cloth approximately 42.5 x 77 cm

Lettering

Inscription: 13 lines of dbu can script

References note

L. A. Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet, or lamaism, 1895, pp. 458-464
Marianne Winder, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989, thankas, banners and paintings no. 50, p. 103.

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Wellcome Collection 744201i

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