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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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PICTURESQUE YUNNAN; TYPES OF CHINESE AND NATIVE RACES; PAGODAS, AND TOMBS' DUOTONES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY YVETTE BORUP ANDREWS The Asiatic Zoological Expedition of the American Museum, 1916-1917, under the leadership of Mr. Roy C. Andrews, tforked in remote parts of the province of Yunnan, China, where no wliite man had been before. It brought back to New York a record of the country, the people, and of the work of the expedition, in the shape of 10,000 feet of moticni picture film, \'>0 Paget natural color plates, and 400 black and white negatives
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THE GATE OF CHOU-CHOU All of the first and second class cities in Yunnan are surrounded by high walls, and are entered through four or more picturesque gates. Some of the walls probably were built in the Middle Ages, and are still in a fairly good state of preservation. They are all loopholcd for riflemen or archers, and even today offer a formidable defense, except against artillery. The gates, like the temples, almost always are surmounted by dolphins ' Illustrations and text, together with the preceding article, copyrighted, 1917, by tlie American Museum Journal 525
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