Set of three shirts, from set of funerary offerings

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These three paper shirts, bought from a funerary goods supplier in Singapore, are from a boxed set of paper and cardboard offerings for a man. The offerings represent a full set of symbolic possessions for the afterlife.

These are three oriental-type folded shirts, one grey, one blue, and one mauve, and each has gold buttons running down the front and an upstanding collar.

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: 000-190-004-221-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  K.1999.1293 C
• Date: 1999
  1999
  1999
  
• Material: Paper, black
  Paper, blue
  Paper, purple
  Shirt
  Shirt
  Shirt
  
• Dimensions: 100 mm H x 346 mm L x 295 mm W
  100 mm H x 346 mm L x 295 mm W
  100 mm H x 346 mm L x 295 mm W
  
• What: Shirt
  Shirt
  Shirt
  
• Subject: Paper offering
  Paper offering
  Paper offering
  
• Who:
• Where: Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore
  
• Event:
• Description: Black paper shirt, one of three, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
  Blue paper shirt, one of three, part of paper offerings for a man, which would be burnt at the graveside as an offering for ancestors: Singapore, 1999
  Purple paper shirt, one of three, 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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