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Photograph taken inside a shrine building. The man in yellow in the photograph is a Shaman in a trance. He throws down oracle bones which they read for fortune telling. e.g. predictions for the harvest. A silk cloth called a a khata (which is normally presented to people) is draped over the shaman and others shown in the photograph.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
If you have any further information about objects in our collections or can suggest corrections to our information, please contact us: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk
