Extensive complete scroll of a hand-painted astrological birth chart, Janam patri, from early 19th-century Rajasthan in North India. It offers predictions based on the positions of heavenly bodies at the time of one’s birth, rendering advice on future activities under their lucky or unlucky influence. Includes detailed palmistry diagram on the reverse side and is 9 feet 10 inches long. Provenance: Property of Bruce Elliot Tapper Ph.D., a social anthropologist, journalist, writer, and editor. He was an editor at the Smithsonian Associates Program in the early 1980s and then had a career as an editor at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, the American Occupational Therapy Association, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.