Mural depicting serpents and three flayed human skins painted to appear to hang from blue timber rafters

Murals of Human Skins

Location
Courtyard, Nechung Monastery, Lhasa, U region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China)

Date
ca. 1900, restored ca. 1996

Material
materials unknown

Dimensions
height approx. 13 ft. (4 m)

Photo Credit
photograph by Cecilia Haynes, 2011

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