A n ornate gilt copper ritual collar from mid-seventeenth-century Nepal is housed at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been the subject of a repatriation campaign since 2021. An inscription on the ornament attributes it to the king Pratap Malla (r. 1641–1674) and invokes Taleju Bhawani , the patron goddess of the Malla kingdom — suggesting that it was either a votive offering by the king, or worn by him as a ritual ornament.

The ornament is in the form of a rigid crescent-shaped collar measuring approximately 35 centimetres in diameter and 9 centimetres at its thickest. The ends feature two loops each, into which two short chains are hooked, to fasten the collar. It is visually divided into five bands of increasing breadth, each with different shapes and motif

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