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Sheet of tissue with charm and images of clothing, from set of funerary offerings

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000-190-004-219-C
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Sheet of tissue with charm and images of clothing, from set of funerary offerings

This sheets, 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 sheet of thin yellow tissue paper is printed with a Buddhist-like good luck charm, and with images representing a man's and a woman's set of clothes.

Symbolic possessions such as this 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: 000-190-004-219-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0098: National Museums Scotland
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  K.1999.1284
Date: 1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
Material: Paper; printed
Paper; printed
Paper; printed
Paper; printed
Paper; printed
Paper; printed
Paper; printed
Dimensions: 541 mm L x 437 mm W
541 mm L x 437 mm W
541 mm L x 437 mm W
541 mm L x 437 mm W
541 mm L x 437 mm W
541 mm L x 437 mm W
541 mm L x 437 mm W
What: Charm
Charm
Charm
Charm
Charm
Charm
Charm
Subject: Paper offering
Paper offering
Paper offering
Paper offering
Paper offering
Paper offering
Paper offering
Who:
Where: Singapore
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore
Singapore
Event:
Description: One of a number of paper charms printed with male and female garments, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
One of a number of paper charms printed with male and female garments, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
One of a number of paper charms printed with male and female garments, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
One of a number of paper charms printed with male and female garments, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
One of a number of paper charms printed with male and female garments, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
One of a number of paper charms printed with male and female garments, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
One of a number of paper charms printed with male and female garments, 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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