Talisman
29-221-125.3
From: India | Punjab, India | Amritsar
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 29-221-125.3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sikhism |
| Provenience | India | Punjab, India | Amritsar |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Metal |
| Description | Miniature dagger talisman. This is one of a set of talismans (pancha shastra) from Amritsar, in the Punjab, such as the natives wear in their head-cloths or turbans. They are symbolic of the weapons of defense carried by their Sikh warrior ancestors called the Nihang or Akali. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 125 - Sommerville Number | 92-1-217C - Found in Collection Number |
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