TYPE: Manuscript

DIMENSIONS: 6 x 5 inches

COMPONENTS: The notes are written in black ink with accents in red ink. Hand stitched binding. Written by brushes, in ink on cotton or mulberry or rice paper. Covers made of black material that looks glossy - maybe be skin or just waxed paper.

CONDITION: The original paper that have been pasted onto fresh paper to arrest the deterioration. Original estimated to be from the mid to late 1800s and the reinforcement and binding from the 1900s.

LANGUAGE

Chinese

ITEM ID: 5167

Old Yao Manuscript from Vietnam #15

Religious

The Yao Culture

DATE

Notes: mid to late 1800s

Yao Shaman’s ritual manuscript with illustrations.

Very intriguing text on a subject that is no longer practiced and the knowledge thereof is available only through second-hand research rather than as a living tradition.

Such manuscripts outline traditional ritual processes to be followed for all events from cradle to grave. They are religious texts, partly of localized Daoist and partly of indigenous beliefs in nature and scripted by the learned Shaman priests who were called upon to conduct these ceremonies.

This particular manuscript has detailed drawings of chicken feet, leaves and charts and it is conjectured that this may have to do with sacrificial offerings.

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