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Hearst Museum object titled Art paper, accession number 9-17686a, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Fan, accession number 9-16189a,b, described as Flat reed and paper fan with bamboo handle. Native name: Kompira uchiwa. One side has green, purple, orange and natural reeds woven in a pattern and reverse side is covered with paper painted in purple and also has calligraphy. Fan is 35.3 cm by 20.8 cm. Purchased by donor at shrine with 1000 steps.

Hearst Museum object titled Folder, accession number 9-13693a, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Folding fan, accession number 9-16459, described as Folding fan with 35 ribs (woman's fan), bamboo handle, painted paper on two sides, side 1 has black background with gold joo-i head border, gold bats & unidentified character, & meander diaper pattern surrounding landscape scene. Side 2 has black ground w/ complex scene of many figures centered around blue pagoda. Length: 27.5 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Incense, accession number 9-22080, described as This is fine Tibetan incense. It is much longer than that generally available in India or USA. The long incense was used in large Buddhist temples with giant incense burners, and held in ceremonial processions or when greeting an important religious guest.This incense is wrapped in a newspaper from Receda, California dated September 13, 1951, four years and one week after Theos Bernard was killed.

Hearst Museum object titled Incense, accession number 9-13672, described as Incense; approx. 60 sticks wrapped in cellophane with multi color label; 37.2 cm long. Package plus 3 loose incense sticks.

Hearst Museum object titled Mantra scroll, accession number 9-22067, described as The blue object is a mantra scroll sewn into a piece of blue cloth. Such scrolls are made for inserting into bronze images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Each scroll has particular mantras, prayers and mystic diagrams meant for placement in a particular part of the image. Some, for example, are for the head area, some for the throat, some for the heart. Each roll is composed of a large number of sheets of thin paper printed with the mantras, prayers and mystic diagrams. They are stacked and rolled up very tightly, and then sewn into cloth cases and labled. In the course of the consecration ritual for the bronze image, the scrolls are carefully inserted in proper order, arranged around a carved and insribed sandalwood centerpost, the empty spaces filled with rare dried herbs. The process is completed with a final layer of required substances and symbols that fill the base of the image, and then all is sealed with a copper bottom plate.

Hearst Museum object titled Mantra scrolls, accession number 9-21944a-c, described as Mantra scroll such as described in item T-131 a-f.