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Chair · Korea
Altar High Chair (Kyo-Yi)
Maker unknown · Korea · 1800s
The belief in two types of souls, the spiritual and the corporeal, embodied the core concept of ancestral worship in traditional China and Korea. While the corporeal soul is believed to reside in the tomb, the spiritual soul, in the spirit house, guards his or her descendants.
— Cleveland Museum of Art, catalogue text
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