Watch List notes:

ETHNOGRAPHIC: TIBET: prayer beads (135g), Opitz p.61, Dubin p.78-81, likely 19th century or earlier, ca. 63cm, consisting of a string of 108 human bone beads inlaid with brass, turquoise, carnelian, coral and other semi-precious stones, also attached with two strings of silver beads ending in a miniature bell (shang), VF, R, ex Charles Opitz Collection. Tibetan prayer rosaries (mala) usually have 108 beads, a number with theological significance in Buddhism. Beads made from human bones are quite rare and used for wrathful-deity rituals.

Estimate: 250-350 USD