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Description
Photo from Dengcen Village charms from mulberry paper used to protect their owners from evil. The circular charm cures illness, the rectangular one behind it on the left brings good fortune and the horses at the back worship ancestors.
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
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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, "Charms to protect from evil" (2010). All Photographs. 1391.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/1391
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photographs, Paper, Crafts, Magic symbols, Paper use, Shaman, Priest
