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Golden burial mask with abstracted features wearing rectangular headdress depicting animal and architectural forms; it rests on decayed silk
Project Himalayan Art 108 Object Essays

A Window onto Early Himalayan Artistic and Mortuary Practices

Gold Burial Mask with Engraved Figures
Guge, Ngari region, western Tibet; Protohistoric period (ca. 2nd or 1st century BCE)
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