A very illustrative example of how tourmaline grows in pockets, particularly in a highly disrupted pegmatite such as the Himalaya, with a Tourmaline showing natural tectonic bending. This we have seen, from time to time at other lcoales'but the Himalaya is famous for its "bent" crystals actually. And this one, on matrix of quartz, is exceptional in that all the others I have seen at this size were loose of matrix. Crudely terminated, but terminated nonetheless.