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Description
Photo from Dengcen Village of horse figures charm cut from mulberry paper used to worship ancestors. It is used to worship ancestors and is often seen on graves but sometimes also in homes.
Date Created
2010-07-17
Format
Photograph
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photographs, Paper, Crafts, Magic symbols, Paper use, Shaman, Priest
Location
Dengcen, Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China
Acknowledgements
Funding Provided by University of the Pacific
Rights Holder
Marie Anna Lee, c. 2019
Rights Management
All images and videos provided in the Kam Minority Archive by Marie Anna Lee on University of the Pacific's Scholarly Commons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Marie Anna, "Offering charm to ancestors shaped as horses" (2010). All Photographs. 1378.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/1378
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photographs, Paper, Crafts, Magic symbols, Paper use, Shaman, Priest
