ABSTRACT
The Boat People, whose storage space is even more limited than that of the cottagers, have smalJer tablets, and, though they have adopted the custom of the Chinese in this form of commemoration of the dead, they have deviated in one respect. Those who die before marriage are not ancestors, and thus do not qualify for a tablet, but the Water Folk keep mementoes of the children they have lost, among the family Gods in the form of small wooden images, the boys mounted on horses or tigers and the girls on white cranes. These may be seen in the shops dealing in religious articles in any fishing vil1age in the Colony, such as Aberdeen and Cheung Chau.
