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Bamboo oracle sticks
stock number: 1846
price: $210.USD/$1600.HKD
description:
Rare ensemble of three pairs of fortune telling bamboo culms. You will find these in almost any active Chinese Taoist temple or with any village shaman from a Sinicized minority in Southeast Asia. These are quite unique in that they are using the angular sections of the bamboo where all the others I have seen are simply carved from wood or use bamboo shoot tips. Difficult to date these so I can only go by the feel of the wear on the surface. The newest are the largest pair probably only 30 or 40 years old, this particular shape of bamboo is called “human face”, the other two are older the smallest being the oldest, possibly 90 years or more. In a Chinese temple honoring the deity of your choice, one would ask it a question and then throw the sticks. If they both land flat side down it is positive, if they land flat side up negative and one up one down is neutral.
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