'Gau' or Tibetan Prayer box. Square-shaped prayer box with four crescent shaped protrusions, one on each side of the square. In sheet gold with ornate filigree work, and set with natural turquoise stones in floral and crescent-shaped motifs.…
the apparatus rotates a drum that has a window slot containing a glass insert, possibly for gauging rotational speed of a shaft viewed through the window or light projected through the window; hand or belt driven