Picture No | 12018815 |
Date | 1922 |
Description | Man carrying imitation paper money, China, East Asia |
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Man carrying imitation paper money, China, East Asia -- the custom was to burn the money over the grave of someone who had died, to supply their spirit with money in their new existence.
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Source | Photograph in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.13, August 1922 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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