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Description: | Two packets of incense cakes, each wrapped up with two leaves and tied with vegetable fibre cord.
Two packages of incense consistiong of round cakes of incense, packed and tied with leaf and raffia. One packaage only half full. Purchased by donor in Chichicastenango market, April 1975. Used inside and outside the church by local brujos in their rituals. Burned in small heaps, or swung in a tin with holes
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1977.177 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | plant material fumigation incenses | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-77886 | Go to resource |
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