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Offering spoon for burning camphor

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Main catalogue: kafur arti. The spoon-shaped object in the form of a fish is used to burn camphor, which is said to have a purifying effect and drive away all evil (see Cornelia Mallebrein, Die Anderen Götter, Cologne 1993, p. 180).

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Offering spoon for burning camphor
Dimensions
Height: 1,1 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Width: 9,1 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I C 15680

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    2nd half of the 19th century
    where
    India
    Maharashtra
    Bombay
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    South and Southeast Asia

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