A piece of sky iron — thokcha — worked into wearable form. The surface is rough, textured with the marks of forging. It's magnetic. You can feel it before you see it — a small pull against other metal, a weight that doesn't match its size.
Thokcha has been collected and worn in Tibet for over a thousand years. The tradition holds that these are fragments of fallen thunderbolts — metal from the sky, not the earth. Science calls it meteoric iron. Tibetans call it a blessing that found its way down.
