Pair of shoes and hat, from set of funerary offerings

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This pair of shoes and hat, 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.

The hat is Western-style, brimmed, black on the outside, and made from three pieces of cardboard. The shoes are also Western-style, and have brown paper soles.

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: 000-190-004-215-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  K.1999.1165
• Date: 1999
  1999
  1999
  
• Material: Card, brown; paper
  Cardboard, black; paper
  Cardboard, black; paper
  Hat
  Shoe
  Shoe
  
• Dimensions: 77 mm H x 300 mm L x 260 mm W
  95 mm H x 285 mm L x 95 mm W
  95 mm H x 285 mm L x 95 mm W
  
• What: Hat
  Shoe
  Shoe
  
• Subject: Paper offering
  Paper offering
  Paper offering
  
• Who:
• Where: Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore
  
• Event:
• Description: One of a pair of black card shoes, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
  One of a pair of black card shoes, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
  Brown card hat with brim, 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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