Box containing spectacles and jewellery, from set of funerary offerings

This presentation box of simulated spectacles and jewellery, 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 cardboard box, wrapped in cellophane, contains a pair of Western-type spectacles, together with a watch, pendant and ring, all made of gold coloured cardboard. The box has prestige trade mark labels 'HB' and 'JIN LONG'.

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:	000-100-104-905-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0098: National Museums Scotland Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland K.1999.1166
Date:	1999
Material:	Paper; card
Dimensions:	22 mm H x 180 mm L x 130 mm W
What:	Box / watch / glasses / ring / pen / necklace
Subject:	Paper offering
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Where:	Singapore
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Description:	Blue box comprising gold paper watch, glasses, ring, pen and necklace, 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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