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Sacrificial rites during the Tsingbing festival in Batavia

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Sacrificial rites during the Tsingbing festival in Batavia

Brandes, Jan

Sacrificial rites during the Tsingbing festival in Batavia.

In the centre a bald Chinese man with a gong, next to a flaming sacrifice. Depicted below a ceremony with the Chinese participants ranked hierarchically: major, captains, lieutenants.

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Sources and literature

Bruijn, M. de en R. Raben, The world of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808: Drawings of a Dutch traveller in Batavia, Ceylon and Southern Africa (2004)