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Goldbars, jewellery, 'Nokia' mobile phones made out of paper/ cardboard. Paper objects, such as clothing, jewellery, mobile phones, cars including a liveried chauffeurs, lavish models of paper villas with manicured gardens, medicine, fancy foods and liquors, cosmetics and others, should be extravagant, bearing a high end brand name.The ancestors will be given all the luxuries that were eluded in life. Ancestor worship is a religious practice based on the belief that deceased family members have a continued existence, take an interest in the affairs of the world, and possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living; shop selling joss paper and paper objects, China Town, Bangkok

Photographer:Valeska Gehrmann
© 2008:Valeska Gehrmann at nationsonline.org