Woodblock prints
- Museum number:
- 9-13682a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210913682a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 100ab (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3314
- Description:
- Woodblock prints; red. yellow, green and black figure on orange ground; a) 67 cm x 38 cm; b) 68.2 x 38.5 cm
- Donor:
- Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China, Hong Kong, Kowloon
- Collector:
- Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
- Collection date:
- March-May 1977
- Materials:
- Paper (fiber product)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Woodcuts (prints)
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Context of use:
- Prints used at outside entrances. Guard household or business. Purchased at paper goods shop.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- a— width 38 centimeters, a— length 67 centimeters, b— length 68.5 centimeters, and b— width 38.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
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