Offering
About this object
History of use
To be burned for the dead.
Cultural context
Supplies for the after-life; Buddhist.
Physical description
Offering composed of eight Chinese bills, rectangular in shape with printed images and text on off-white paper. On one face, the printed text reads, "Bank of Minh-Tung," and the image is of a building inside an oval shape off to one side, which is inside a border with Chinese characters at the corners as well as at the top and bottom of the border. The other face is printed with the image of a steamship, and "BANK OF MINH-TUNG" as well as Chinese characters inside oval shapes to either side of the steamship, as well as below the ship and at the corners of the border. Seven of the eight bills are printed with red-brown ink on the face that has the image of the building and blue ink on the face that depicts a steamship. The eighth bill is printed in black ink on the face that has the image of the building, and orange-brown ink on the face that depicts a steamship.
