Milk Pail Hook -Tibet 04.02.1157
Decoration for a lady belt. Double hook mounted on leather bow, on the backside strengthened with a metal plate. Two metal layers, above silver alloy, below brass. Verso fixed on metal plate leather fixed with nails. In the front five small coral discs, most of them broken, in the decorative graved middle piece. Througout Tibet milking is women's work. The cow is a dri (female yak) or a dzo-mo ( a cross breed between yak and domestic cow).
