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

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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: 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
  Charm
  Charm
  Charm
  Charm
  Charm
  Charm
  Charm
  
• 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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