The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) is a research center for ethnology and cultural anthropology.

Amulet for the driver's seat

  • MI 1008
  • Delhi, India
The deity Krishna as a flute-playing herdsman

This type of amulet is placed at the driver's seat of trucks, buses, and auto-rickshaws. Drivers in South Asia are generally pious. They pray every morning burning incense, and pray again before they start a trip. Most amulets depict Hindu deities such as Ganesa, an elephant-faced god, while others represent the virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, as well as Jaina and Sikh gods.

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