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Description: | Game tiles for a game of mah jong. There are 144 tiles in total. The tiles are divided amongst five drawers and into three suits. The suits consist of characters, bamboos and circles. There are also winds and dragons. In the same drawer as these are bonus tiles of the flowers ansd seasons. Each suit consists of 36 tiles divided into four sets of nine tiles. The tiles are made of bone and are mounted onto bamboo.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 2003.562.2.1 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bamboo wood metal bone Family and Home counters pigment | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-219934 | Go to resource |
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