Tsampa (Barley) flour is a very important source of food in the Himalayan belt, it gives a good amount of energy and fills up your stomach. In earlier times most of the people in Ladakh use to consume barley flour for meals and also along with tea and local beer. This Tsampa pot is for storing barley flour.
This tsampa (barley) flour box is of very high quality wood and about more than 50 years old.