Bright Eye goddess, China, ca.1900-1920

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Title: Bright Eye goddess, China, ca.1900-1920
Published / Created: between 1900 and 1920
Description: "I think this is the 'Bright Eye' goddess at Tzecheo. Every year there was a festival, when thousands of people went up the hill to worship her and be healed of eye diseases. My father had a booth on the road to peddle tracts and boric acid. (I used to worry that any improvement in eye infections might be credited to the idol instead of the boric acid. ME Manly)." Enshrined in a curtained opening the female figure sits in front of another dark figure with its eyes outlined in white. There is a basin on the altar before the healing goddess. The caption is handwritten on the back of the postcard.
Extent: photographic postcards, 13.5 x 8.5 cm

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