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Object Number 35-10-60/16290.1.5
Display Title Children on street
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "35-10 / Gansu / China / Card A / Arabic, not Chinese, is studied in the schools / See opposite side of card / Gift of Harrison Forman / The Explorers Club / New York City" Verso: "Moslems -- 10,000,000 of them in northwest / China. Turkish and Arabian tribes which mig- / rated to China more than a thousand years ago. / Note the carry-over of the veil. But being / practical the "veil" has an oval cut out for / the face. In speech and dress the men are / Chinese. Arabic and not Chinese is taught in / the schools. The white turban is the sign of / an AHUNG -- a Moslem priest. Even the young- / ster neophyte wears a white turban. / Chinese Moslems from Kansu / Most of these pictures were secured with the / Angular View Finder on the Leica camera -- / permitting pictures to be taken at right angles (continued under remarks)
Department Photographic
Date 1885-1934
Artist Mr. Harrison Forman
Culture
  • Chinese
  • Muslim
  • Turkish
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China / Gansu
Dimensions Overall: 13.97 × 7.62 cm (5 1/2 × 3 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Mr. Harrison Forman

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Woman with hairpiece, view from behind
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35-10-60/16290.1.2 Woman with hairpiece, side view
Tibet
Woman with long braid and children in street
35-10-60/16290.1.1 Woman with long braid and children in street
Tibet
Woman with hairpiece and children in background
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Tibet
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