rosary

Taoist rosary comprising 108 roughly spherical shaped beads made from a compound of straw and other materials with tiny fragments of flint. Could possibly be animal dung with flint and other fragments from the ground. Some beads are coloured.

Label: Red Church Missionary Society 'BUDDHIST ROSARY, WHICH / WAS THE PROPERTY OF A / BLIND TAOIST PRIEST.'

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
21.4.61/68
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 530 mm x 30 mm x 16 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
dung; string
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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