Mobile phone, from set of funerary offerings

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This cardboard mobile phone, bought from a funerary goods supplier in Singapore, is from a boxed set of paper and cardboard offerings for a man. The offerings represent a full set of symbolic possessions for the afterlife.

Made of cardboard, in the shape of mobile phone with integral battery charger, this item comes in a presentation clear cellophane bag.

These symbolic possessions are burned in a night-time Daoist funerary ceremony, several weeks after the deceased's cremation. It is a widespread contemporary tradition in south-east Asia. The cardboard items are burned to ensure a comfortable afterlife.

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• Online ID: 000-190-004-216-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  K.1999.1170 C
• Date: 1999
  1999
  1999
  1999
  
• Material: Card
  Card
  Card, black, grey, geren and white
  Card; paper, gray and yellow
  Battery charger, mobile phone
  Battery, mobile phone
  Mobile phone
  Toothbrush
  
• Dimensions: 12 mm H x 80 mm L x 50 mm W
  14 mm H x 160 mm L x 15 mm W
  18 mm H x 122 mm L x 62 mm W
  35 mm H x 160 mm L x 63 mm W
  
• What: Battery charger, mobile phone
  Battery, mobile phone
  Mobile phone
  Toothbrush
  
• Subject: Paper offering
  Paper offering
  Paper offering
  Paper offering
  
• Who:
• Where: Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore
  
• Event:
• Description: Gray and yellow paper and card toothpaste, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
  Card mobile phone in black, grey, green and white, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
  Card battery for a mobile phone, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
  Card battery charger for a mobile phone, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
  
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