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Offering PaperEdz1150

Paper offering composed of a piece of off-white paper with a square of foil at the centre. The central piece of paper is flanked by two pieces of rectangular beige paper, and all three pieces are folded over a piece of brown paper. Slight overall dish shape.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper and metal
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CandleEdz1147 a-b

Two vertical sticks encased in orange wax at the top. Each stick has a shorter stick attached at its base with paper at a forty-five degree angle. On both sticks the orange wax also has three coloured marks on it--yellow, white and green--and a large white wick emerging from the top.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wax, bamboo grass, paper and paste adhesive
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering PaperEdz1146 a-hhh

Paper offering in the form of 60 "Hell Bank Notes" for 50,000,000 dollars, each a rectangular piece of off-white paper with blue printed text and the image of a building on one face, and red text with the image of a bearded man on the reverse with a green background to either side of the image. Part a is folded to hold the remaining bank notes.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper and ink
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering PaperEdz1145 a-kkk

Paper offerings consisting of 63 pieces of off-white rectangular paper, each with two rows of crescent-shaped slits and two holes punched through them.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering PaperEdz1141

Paper offering composed of a T-shaped piece of black paper that has a gold metallic printed dragon motif, and two triangular pieces of red paper adhered to the sides of the vertical segment.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, ink and metal
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering PaperEdz1140

Paper offering composed of a piece of off-white paper with an image depicting a four-legged spotted animal, a bearded male figure with a staff, plant and geometric motifs as well as Chinese characters inside a border of stylized flowers with a scroll at the top that is divided in three, each cell containing a Chinese character; superimposed over the image is a square of foil that has been painted (?) over with orange to make it appear gold. The central piece of paper is flanked by two pieces of rectangular beige paper, and all three pieces are folded over a piece of brown paper. Slight overall dish shape.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, ink, metal and paint ?
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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CandleEdz1138 a-b

Two vertical sticks encased in orange wax at the top. Each stick has a shorter stick attached at its base with paper at a forty-five degree angle. On both sticks the orange wax also has three coloured marks on it--yellow, white and green--and a large white wick emerging from the top.

Culture
Chinese
Material
wax, bamboo grass, paste adhesive and paper
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Offering PaperEdz1137 a-hhh

Paper offering in the form of 60 "Hell Bank Notes" for 50,000,000 dollars, each a rectangular piece of off-white paper with blue printed text and the image of a building on one face, and red text with the image of a bearded man on the reverse with a green background to either side of the image. Part a is folded to hold the remaining bank notes.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper and ink
Made in
Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tapa Cloth1188/44

The tapa cloth is natural in colour with designs painted in reddish-brown and gray. There are eight squares all together; two rows of four. The squares are defined by thick brown lines outlined with gray. All the squares have a diagonal line in the centre. The rest of the square is filled with snake-like lines and small coloured-in shapes. All the lines and shapes are brown and outlined in gray then surrounded by a dotted gray line. The cloth is painted on one side only.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
paper mulberry bark and paint
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress902/24

Five pieces of thick paper are tied together with light brown fibre cording. When opened, the paper panels fold out accordion-style to form a headdress. Each panel has a painted picture of a human in the centre on one of its sides. When closed, the panels stack on top of each other. Each panel has one short flat edge, has two edges that flare outwards, and a top edge that angle inwards and has a scalloped edge. There is a small red circle towards the scalloped edge, on the outside and in the middle of one of the panels.

Culture
Himalayas
Material
paper, paint and fibre
Made in
Nepal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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