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Description: | Cylindrical container with altar spilling sticks used to tell fortunes, and inscribed on the outside. The sticks are inscribed with different forecasts. The customer would shake the box until one falls out, and the fortune teller would then use this to make his forecast. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood varnish altar spill containers pigment altar spills (spills (ritual & belief: religious buildings & furnishings)) | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-120104 | Go to resource |
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