This notice has no signature and the author is anonymous. It describes how this person acquired a number of curios and brasses from Nepal. He mentions how Newar men looted items from the Goorkha temples and then sold them to the author. He also explains how he purchased 'household gods' during a famine in 1891. The Tibetan items were bought from itinerant horse and sheep merchants that visited Katmandu during the summer. The author mentions how in one instance after purchasing two Panas (nepalese oil lamps) the head priest reported to the author's orderly officer that they had been stolen and the priest managed to keep them. The author compares his collection to that of Sir Edwad Durand.
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object | ARC/HMG/RS/STANFIELD/533/009
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