Offering spoon for burning camphor | Photographer: Wibke Lobo
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Offering spoon for burning camphor
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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Object type
Offering spoon for burning camphor
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 1,1 x 9,1 x 4 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I C 15680
Provenance and sources
when
2nd half of the 19th century
where
India [Land]
Maharashtra [Bundesstaat]
Bombay [Stadt]
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