เครื่องรางโตลี (กระจกของชามาน)Toliтоль

The counts are recorded people by people, and this record keeps them apart. Among the Daur, small toli were set on the costume like overlapping scales, with eight large mirrors and one medium one to protect the heart — the neker-toli, which might be plated in nickel. In Hure Banner, shamans wore nine mirrors, and nine is a number of particular weight in Mongolian religion and mythology. The practice is also recorded among the Buryats in the Republic of Buryatia and among the Tsaatan in Mongolia.

Walther Heissig, documenting shamans in Hure Banner in the 1940s, recorded that the toli held the white horses of the shamans and served as a vehicle for the shaman.

What the mirrors are said to do beyond armour: purify and empower water or vodka; collect and trap hostile spirits; give helper spirits somewhere to live. In Mongolia they are described as vessels for the shaman's spiritual power, the wind horse, and as collecting and storing the power of blessings. A toli also says what its wearer is — the mirrors signify the shaman's authority and role, and how many of them there are is read as a measure of standing.

Inference — a polished disc worn at the chest does two jobs at once that this atlas usually finds split between two objects: it faces outward like a door charm and it is worn like a pendant. The Chinese bagua mirror does the first from a wall. This one walks.

Worn on the costume and at the neck, in numbers. The sources read describe what the mirrors are and what they are for, and do not publish how one is made, charged or passed on; this record stops where they stop and does not borrow a procedure from a neighbouring people.

Still worn by practising shamans in Mongolia, Buryatia and among the Daur, as the published ethnography describes them; the atlas has not read a survey dated to 2026 and does not claim numbers. Bronze mirrors of this kind also circulate as collectibles, which is a different object with the same shape.