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Agriculture

AGRICULTURE

Clothing and Textiles

CLOTHING AND TEXTILES

Furniture

FURNITURE

Illness and Diseases

ILLNESS AND DISEASES

Industry

INDUSTRY

Leisure

LEISURE

Work

WORK

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Kees van Dongen: "Vincente Escudero". Netherlands, 1931. Lithograph, 120.5 x 80cm. Escudero was a famous Spanish dancer.
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Kees van Dongen: "Vincente Escudero". Netherlands, 1931. Lithograph, 120.5 x 80c...

Samuel Nelson Abbott: "Hart and Marx, Makers of fine clothes for men". USA, around 1925. Colour lithograph, 58.5 x 40.5 cm.
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Samuel Nelson Abbott: "Hart and Marx, Makers of fine clothes for men". USA, arou...

Wooden storage trunk.
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Wooden storage trunk.

Intricately carved low tables (choedom) are found in well-to-do houses and are also decorated with auspicious motifs such as the phoenix, the dragon and other designs often of Chinese origin. H: 34 cm, L: 71 cm
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Intricately carved low tables (choedom) are found in well-to-do houses and ar...

Intricately carved low tables (choedom) are found in well-to-do houses and are also decorated with auspicious motifs such as the phoenix, the dragon and other designs often of Chinese origin. H: 34 cm, L: 71 cm
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Intricately carved low tables (choedom) are found in well-to-do houses and ar...

Boxes made of multicoloured bamboo strands with locks belong to well-off families and would contain precious clothes or objects. Bamboo, wood, brass H: 46 cm
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Boxes made of multicoloured bamboo strands with locks belong to well-off famil...

Intricately carved low tables (choedom) are found in well-to-do houses and are also decorated with auspicious motifs such as the phoenix, the dragon and other designs often of Chinese origin. H: 34 cm, L: 71 cm
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Intricately carved low tables (choedom) are found in well-to-do houses and ar...

Butter is still transported and kept in airtight pigskin bags which weigh about ten kilos. L: 48 cm
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Butter is still transported and kept in airtight pigskin bags which weigh...

Bamboo sieve. H:11 cm
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Bamboo sieve. H:11 cm

Wooden containers.
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Wooden containers.

Coarse tealeaves are pressed into the shape of a brick or cone and wrapped in bamboo or banana leaves for transport. The coarse leaves are used mostly for butter-tea. L:53 cm
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Coarse tealeaves are pressed into the shape of a brick or cone and wrapped in b...

Alcohol or water containers can be made of different materials such as bamboo, horn or wood and decorated with brass rings. From such vessels liquid can be poured into a cup or sipped with a bamboo straw.
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Alcohol or water containers can be made of different materials such as bamboo...