family badges

I've been enmeshed in a serious amount of family time. All Chinese families are big. They are so big that this box was given to us at the funeral parlor. The box contains swatches of fabric to designate your relationship to the departed. I forget what each color was for, but they all signify different relationships: in-laws, on the mother's side, on the father's side, etc.



The box is resting on a tub of white shirts that people can wear at the wake. In many secular Chinese religions, white is the color of mourning.