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# Headdress

Conical gilt copper-alloy crown structured in three tiers decorated with separately cast images representing the five Buddhas of Newar Buddhism and other deities. Surmounted with a seated image of the crowned Buddha Vairocana seated over a double thunderbold (visva-vajra).

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1899 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-4-1946](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-4-1946) · Pramāṇa
