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Item id: 9724

Rustic 19thC Mongolian traveling Altar Box. This is a box in which a nomadic Mongolian person would have kept a Buddha and small ritual implements and prayers. When they set it up, they would sit it up on its side and use it as an altar, putting the Buddhas in the two openings, using them as niches, like you would find in a larger altar. They would put smaller pieces and ritual implements on the top of the box which would be sitting on its side. When they were done they would wrap everything in cloth and put it back in the box and put it away. Sometimes this may have been kept out, but as I understand it, often this stuff was put away when it was not being used for devotion. - (12.75"W x 3.25"H x 6"D)