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Object Number 2010.5.36032
Display Title Shrine at Kharagantai obo
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Burial and Cremation
  • Ethnographic
  • Ritual
  • Ceremony
Subject
  • shrine
  • Obo
  • Altar
Department Photographic
Date 1932
Artist Owen Lattimore
Culture
  • Mongolian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China / Inner Mongolia
Additional Geographic Terms Hohhot, near; Erenhot, near; Sonid Youqi; Khussa-in Gol; East Sunid; Kharagantai
Dimensions Overall: 3.81 x 6.35 cm (1 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

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