Woodcut poster of the Lord of the department of fate and fortune. Above inscription: red imprint of a canopy. 14 x 24 cm. Flanking the poster: two strips of paper money to be burned in courtyard on New Year’s Eve. 5.6 x 22.7 cm. (Mounted in USA.)
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
Verbatim coll. place:
China. Peking (Beijing).
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1942 Chinese New Year
Materials:
Ink and Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Posters
Function:
4.2 Public Buildings and Furnishings and 7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)