The Pangboche Yeti hand and its disputed provenance

Record summary

The Pangboche Monastery hand was historically presented to outsiders as a Yeti relic and became one of the best-known alleged humanoid remains from Nepal. By the modern period, accounts described its removal, partial replacement, or transfer into private and museum contexts, while biological testing associated available material with a human hand. It remains a useful lead for research on how sacred objects become cryptid evidence through collecting and media circulation. The uncertainties concern the current location, identity of the original material, and whether tested fragments represented the legendary object.