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Hearst Museum object titled Banner, accession number 9-21433, described as Banner with Spring inscriptions for kitchen shrine. 6.9 x 8.2 cm with horizontal strips: 12.6 x 4 cm; side strips: 4 x 22.7 cm. (Mounted in USA.) *Translation: Top rectangle: “SPIRIT” Cross strip: "Lord of the whole household" Side strips (should be reversed): "When you ascend into heaven, tell good things! When you return to your shrine, bring down good luck!

Hearst Museum object titled Banner, accession number 9-21371, described as Banner with inscriptions for kitchen-god shrine. 6.7 x 24 cm. Mounted in USA. *Translation: ”When you ascend to heaven, report good things! Coming down to this world, guarantee peace and security.” Top character to be cut off and pasted on top of shrine. Lower part to be divided vertically and pasted on side posts of shrine.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number NO-TEMP165, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-12942, described as A manuscript made of rectangular strips of palm ("thali") leaf engraved with a stylus in an archaic Malayazhma script, bound between dark brown jackwood ("Artocarpus integrifolia") strips; pierced and secured by a cord. Native name and meaning: "thali ollai grantham" (palmetto leaf treatise). Width 4.3 cm, length 19 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-13028a, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-20543, described as Blank book with accordian pages, textile cover, loose page

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-21431, described as Book. Vademecum containing 1) the list of Chinese surnames; 2) the Three-Character Classic; 3) the Thousand-Character Primer, all with homophones under each character; 4) inscriptions for all occasions in couplet form; 5) formulae how to sign letters; 6) samples for contracts; 7) fortune-telling: Kuan-yin’s 32 answers to coin-throwing; 8) how to raise horses, cattle, and chicken; 9) calendar for burials. Running on top: illustrations; Chang T’ien-shih’s (the Taoist pope’s) prescriptions for exorcising sickness. Published by the “Old Two-Yu Hall” Publishers, Peking. no date. 13.3 x 20.3 cm. Paper, stitched.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-4929, described as Set of 19 leaves with incised scriptures ( probably a Buddhist text): comprises 1 bundle of text; each leaf 2x18”; made from leaves of either toddy palm ( Borassus flaaballifer) or corypha palm ( corypha umbroculifera).

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-10831, described as book in manuscript form, religious; paper, red and black ink, paints, binding material; for religious purposes, prayer?; the paintings are in an Indian style and include the figure of the Lord Krishna in several; several pages are loose

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-13029a, no description available.