Incense

Museum number:
16-18515
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Alternate number:
24 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3422
Description:
Box of incense (Defumador, Vence sempre="Always win"); printed paper; multicolored; drawing of two crossed swords and a smoky pot of incense; gray-green incense enclosed; 10 cm by 2.5 cm by 4.5 cm.
Donor:
Daryl P. Domning and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil
Verbatim coll. place:
Brazil
Culture or time period:
Afro-Brazilian
Collector:
Daryl P. Domning
Collection date:
April 1978
Materials:
Incense and Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Incense
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Context of use:
Used in Umbanda, one of the Afro-Brazilian possession cults.
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Incense, accession number 16-18515, described as Box of incense (Defumador, Vence sempre="Always win"); printed paper; multicolored; drawing of two crossed swords and a smoky pot of incense; gray-green incense enclosed; 10 cm by 2.5 cm by 4.5 cm.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Incense, accession number 16-18515, described as Box of incense (Defumador, Vence sempre="Always win"); printed paper; multicolored; drawing of two crossed swords and a smoky pot of incense; gray-green incense enclosed; 10 cm by 2.5 cm by 4.5 cm.

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