skull cups

a  ritual bowl called a kapala use by  indian  Hindus and buddhist  is  tibet made  from a human  skull. The  skulls are usually collected at burial  sites before bedbug ornately carved or mounted with  precious jewels  or silver. There  are tow types of kapala  those that use the whole  skull and those that use only the skull cup or top half of the cranium. They often server a vessels for holding food or wine but some followers also allegedly drink blood from skull cups. called book ripley believe it or not.