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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4743109, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome/welkom Lian. For future reference, it is best if your photos are below 1mb, preferably 640 x 480k.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a beautiful handmade cloth, and it looks like a Peranakan altar cloth to me. My guess is early 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Peranakan are also known as Straits Chinese. They are descendants of Chinese merchants and craftspeople who settled along the sea straits of Southeast Asia, so Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore. Many of these Chinese married or set up households with local women.</p><p>Peranakan culture is a mix of Chinese and Malay. Their spiritual beliefs follow the Chinese traditions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was he a Catholic monk, or a Buddhist one?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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