Set of two couplets

Museum number:
9-21358a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
VIII 1 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
Set of two couplets. Black ink on red paper. 58 x 10.5 cm.
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Mongolia
Verbatim coll. place:
Mongolia
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1942
Materials:
Ink and Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
For Chinese New Year, for door lintels. Politically correct during WWII. “The Mongolian banners in their four colors fly lustily in the wind, as the yellow race rises again; One sound of bursting firecrackers sends out shock waves, by which the Red devils will be entirely annihilated.”
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 58 centimeters and width 10.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Set of two couplets, accession number 9-21358a,b, described as Set of two couplets. Black ink on red paper. 58 x 10.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Set of two couplets, accession number 9-21358a,b, described as Set of two couplets. Black ink on red paper. 58 x 10.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Set of two couplets, accession number 9-21358a,b, described as Set of two couplets. Black ink on red paper. 58 x 10.5 cm.

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