Two Tibetan yak wool tie & dye shawls from Southern Tibet and/or Zanskar. Yak wool, natural colors, approx age is early 20th century. Cm 85x75 ca. each. In Tibet the Tigma or cross in circle pattern is a motif related to shamanistic tradition deriving from pre Buddhist Bon cults and was often created on woolen textiles using the tie-dye method. The Tigma is similar to the Buddhist Swastika, a good-luck symbol and is conducive to well-being. p.s. ....a scholar wrote to me correcting some infos: Not from Tibet, but from Zangskar, not yak, but sheep wool, not early, but most probably mid 20th century, purple and yellow might be synthetic. That's his opinion, thank you.