The Field Musuem holds one of the largest and best-documented Tibetan collections in the United States. Another legacy of anthropologist Berthold Laufer, these traditional books, costumes, personal accessories, ritual images, paintings, and other secular and religious objects are an absorbing record of life in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Tibet.
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