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 "schema": 1,
 "id": "cha-ping",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "จะปิ้ง",
  "roman": "cha ping",
  "en": "Cha ping (child's modesty plate)",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "จับปิ้ง",
    "ตะปิ้ง",
    "กระจับปิ้ง"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "chaping",
    "jabping",
    "tapping"
   ],
   "en": [
    "modesty shield",
    "child's genital cover",
    "araimudi (Tamil cognate)"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th",
  "my",
  "id"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": null,
  "functions": [
   "khum_khrong"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "kala",
   "ngoen",
   "naak",
   "thongkham"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "object"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "other",
  "shape_th": "แผ่นโลหะหรือกะลารูปหัวใจ ใบไม้ หรือโล่ ผูกเชือกคาดเอว",
  "shape_en": "A small plate — brass, silver, nak, gold, or coconut shell — heart- or leaf-shaped for girls, shield-shaped for boys, hung from a waist cord over the genitals",
  "size_mm": [
   40,
   50,
   2
  ],
  "wearable_th": "คาดเอวเด็กเล็ก",
  "wearable_en": "Worn at the waist by small children, girls above all, from infancy to the head-shaving years",
  "obverse_th": "ลายพรรณพฤกษาสำหรับเด็กหญิง เครื่องหมายกากบาทสำหรับเด็กชาย",
  "obverse_en": "Plant motifs for girls; a cross (+) mark for boys, per the Thai article",
  "reverse_th": "เรียบ",
  "reverse_en": "Plain",
  "notes_en": "Sizes vary by age and family; the Stockholm set has 'larger' and 'smaller' forms. Size given is typical of the museum pieces, marked inference."
 },
 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "รูปหัวใจ / ใบโพธิ์",
   "en": "heart or bodhi-leaf outline"
  },
  {
   "th": "ลายตาข่ายเกล็ดเต่า",
   "en": "turtle-scale lattice"
  },
  {
   "th": "กากบาท",
   "en": "a cross mark on the boys' shield form"
  }
 ],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": null,
  "wat_th": "",
  "wat_en": "",
  "maker_th": "ช่างทอง ช่างเงินตามฐานะครอบครัว",
  "maker_en": "Household jewellers; the metal follows the family's standing",
  "era_th": "ตั้งแต่สมัยศรีวิชัย ถึงต้นรัตนโกสินทร์ และหลงเหลือถึงปัจจุบัน",
  "era_en": "Attested from the Srivijaya centuries through early Bangkok; museum examples bought in Bangkok in 1887; rare on children today",
  "place_th": "ทั่วสยาม มลายู ชวา และอินเดียใต้ (araimudi)",
  "place_en": "Siam, the Malay world, Java, and Tamil south India (araimudi)",
  "first_attested": "1887 (Stockholm set, bought in Bangkok)"
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "แผ่นบาง มีห่วงหรือรูสำหรับร้อยเชือกที่ขอบบน",
   "en": "A thin plate with a loop or holes at the top edge for the waist cord — never a bail for a neck chain",
   "source": "s:smvk-vanadis-1887",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "รูปหัวใจสำหรับเด็กหญิง โล่สำหรับเด็กชาย",
   "en": "Heart or leaf outline for girls, shield outline for boys — the museum's own 1887 labels make the split",
   "source": "s:smvk-vanadis-1887",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "ทองเหลืองเป็นเนื้อสามัญ เงิน นาก ทอง ตามฐานะ",
   "en": "Brass is the common body; silver, nak and gold mark wealth; coconut shell the poorest",
   "source": "s:th-wiki-cha-ping",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "th": "ไม่มีองค์พระ ไม่มียันต์ ไม่มีชื่อวัด",
   "en": "No Buddha, no yantra, no temple: it is a worn protection, not a consecrated one, which is why the vault vocabulary has no class for it",
   "source": "s:vault-classes",
   "tier": "inference"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "palad-khik",
   "tell_th": "ปลัดขิกคาดเอวเด็กชายเพื่อป้องกันเช่นกัน แต่เป็นรูปอวัยวะเพศชายและปลุกเสก · จะปิ้งเป็นแผ่นปิด ไม่ปลุกเสก",
   "tell_en": "Both hang at a child's waist for protection, but a palad khik is a consecrated phallus and a cha ping is an unconsecrated plate that covers"
  },
  {
   "id": "kala-ta-diao",
   "tell_th": "กะลาตาเดียวเป็นของธรรมชาติที่พบ · จะปิ้งกะลาเป็นของตัดขึ้นเป็นรูป",
   "tell_en": "A one-eyed coconut is found and kept whole; a coconut-shell cha ping is cut and shaped"
  },
  {
   "id": "locket",
   "tell_th": "ล็อกเก็ตห้อยคอ มีรูปพระ · จะปิ้งคาดเอว ไม่มีรูป",
   "tell_en": "A locket hangs at the neck and carries a monk's picture; a cha ping hangs at the waist and carries a pattern"
  }
 ],
 "market": {
  "search": [
   "จะปิ้ง",
   "จับปิ้ง"
  ],
  "excludes": [],
  "tier": "unknown"
 },
 "media": {
  "commons_categories": [],
  "commons_files": [],
  "wanted_en": "Museum pieces exist (Stockholm 1887 set, CC0); a photograph of one worn, and a coconut-shell example, would complete it"
 },
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   "author": "Statens museer för världskultur (Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm)",
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   "view": "obverse",
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 "text": {
  "what_th": "แผ่นปิดของลับสำหรับเด็กเล็ก ผูกเชือกคาดเอว ทำจากทองเหลือง เงิน นาก ทอง หรือกะลา รูปหัวใจหรือใบไม้สำหรับเด็กหญิง โล่สำหรับเด็กชาย พิพิธภัณฑ์สตอกโฮล์มที่ซื้อจากบางกอกใน พ.ศ. ๒๔๓๐ จดว่าเป็น “เครื่องราง”",
  "what_en": "A child's modesty plate worn on a waist cord — brass, silver, nak, gold or coconut shell; heart or leaf for girls, shield for boys. The Stockholm museum that bought a set in Bangkok in 1887 catalogued them as amulets, and the Thai article notes the Tamil cousin is a talisman against spirits.",
  "story_th": "ในชุดที่เรือวานาดิสซื้อจากบางกอก พ.ศ. ๒๔๓๐ มีจะปิ้งทองเหลืองทั้งแบบใหญ่และเล็ก แบบหัวใจสำหรับเด็กหญิง แบบโล่สำหรับเด็กชาย เก็บอยู่ที่พิพิธภัณฑ์ชาติพันธุ์วิทยา สตอกโฮล์ม",
  "story_en": "The Swedish frigate Vanadis called at Bangkok in 1885 and the Museum of Ethnography catalogued the purchases in 1887: among them a run of brass cha ping, larger and smaller, hearts for girls and shields for boys, each labelled 'ornament (amulet)'. They are the only museum-quality free photographs of a Thai child's protection we have found.",
  "keeping_th": "ไม่มีผู้อยู่ ไม่ปลุกเสก เป็นของประดับที่ป้องกัน",
  "keeping_en": "Nobody home and no rite: a worn protection, not a consecrated one. The vault vocabulary has no class for it and that refusal is recorded."
 },
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  "s:th-wiki-cha-ping",
  "s:smvk-vanadis-1887",
  "s:vault-classes",
  "s:vault-materials",
  "s:tradition"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:th-wiki-cha-ping"
  },
  "fields": {
   "form.size_mm": {
    "tier": "inference"
   },
   "axes.functions": {
    "tier": "tradition",
    "source": "s:tradition"
   },
   "origin.first_attested": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:smvk-vanadis-1887"
   },
   "text.story_en": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:smvk-vanadis-1887"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-03",
 "class_facts": {
  "key": null,
  "term": "ยังไม่ชี้ขาด",
  "en": "left to a knower",
  "resident": null,
  "upkeep": null,
  "provenance_sensitivity": null,
  "definition": "The vault vocabulary does not place this kind; the refusal is recorded, not papered over."
 },
 "function_terms": [
  {
   "key": "khum_khrong",
   "term": "คุ้มครอง",
   "roman": "khum khrong",
   "en": "general protection, watching over",
   "definition": "Unspecified guardianship. **A holding pen, not a category** — when a source says only คุ้มครอง it usually has not said which of the specific functions above it means. Treat its presence as a gap to close, not an answer."
  }
 ],
 "material_terms": [
  {
   "key": "kala",
   "term": "กะลา",
   "roman": "kala",
   "en": "coconut shell",
   "definition": "Coconut shell, most often the single-eyed shell (กะลาตาเดียว) carved and inscribed. High occurrence in the corpus. Note that many กะลา hits are the carved ปลัดขิก form — cross-check the class axis, which deliberately leaves ปลัดขิก unassigned."
  },
  {
   "key": "ngoen",
   "term": "เนื้อเงิน",
   "roman": "nuea ngoen",
   "en": "silver",
   "definition": "Silver. Usually the middle tier of a struck issue — a รุ่น commonly runs ทองแดง, เงิน, ทองคำ from the same die, in descending quantity and ascending regard."
  },
  {
   "key": "naak",
   "term": "เนื้อนาค",
   "roman": "nuea naak",
   "en": "copper-gold alloy (rose gold)",
   "definition": "A copper-and-gold alloy of reddish cast, ranked in the treatises alongside gold and silver as one of the sheets a yantra may be inscribed on — the corpus phrase is แผ่นทอง แผ่นเงิน แผ่นนาค. Added to this axis *because of* that passage, not from the market: the compound forms return zero listings, so this is a material the treatises name and the retail corpus does not carry. **Carried only in unambiguous compounds.** Bare นาค returns 553 pages and 132 listings, but nearly all of those are the naga serpent — a being, not an alloy — which belongs to the class and motif axes. Scanning the bare term here would import a bestiary into a materials list."
  },
  {
   "key": "thongkham",
   "term": "เนื้อทองคำ",
   "roman": "nuea thongkham",
   "en": "gold",
   "definition": "Gold. Thin in this corpus — 93 of 13,020 listings, and most of those name it for a frame or a plating rather than for the body of the piece. Gold issues are not rare in the tradition; they do not circulate on an open retail platform. That thinness measures what this corpus can and cannot see, and is among the clearest arguments for seeding the register from competition and association records rather than from listings. **Correction of record:** an earlier draft put this at 1 occurrence, having searched only the compound เนื้อทองคำ. The bare term is the one the market uses."
  }
 ],
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "th",
   "th": "ทั่วประเทศไทย",
   "en": "Thailand, not regionally specific"
  },
  {
   "key": "my",
   "th": "มาเลเซีย",
   "en": "Malaysia"
  },
  {
   "key": "id",
   "th": "อินโดนีเซีย",
   "en": "Indonesia"
  }
 ],
 "market_stats": {
  "listings": 0,
  "priced": 0,
  "median_thb": null,
  "typical_thb": [
   null,
   null
  ],
  "source": "s:catalog-db",
  "tier": "catalogue",
  "note": "no listing title carries this term"
 },
 "primary_image": {
  "file": "cha-ping/cha-ping-museum-prydnad-girls-heart-form-267065.jpg",
  "source": "museum",
  "title": "prydnad — girls' heart form",
  "url": "https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/zoom/3330674/1887.08.3946-3949.jpg",
  "page_url": "https://www.europeana.eu/item/91619/SMVK_EM_objekt_1300843?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo",
  "license": "CC0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "author": "Statens museer för världskultur (Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm)",
  "credit": "Vanadis expedition purchase, Bangkok 1887",
  "view": "obverse",
  "alt_th": "จะปิ้ง",
  "alt_en": "Cha ping (child's modesty plate) — prydnad — girls' heart form",
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  "primary": true
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 "tier_labels": {
  "en": {
   "catalogue": "Catalogue — checkable against the corpus (catalog.db, a transcribed treatise)",
   "cited": "Cited — a named external source, linked",
   "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the wider tradition, hedged",
   "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
   "field": "Field — someone stood there"
  },
  "th": {
   "catalogue": "จากคลัง",
   "cited": "อ้างอิงแหล่ง",
   "tradition": "ตามประเพณี",
   "inference": "อนุมาน",
   "field": "พบเห็นเอง"
  }
 }
}