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Buddhist priest, Changde, Hunan, China, ca.1900-1919
"A Buddhist priest. Note shorn head. I was told that when a man became a Buddhist monk, he had 9 scars made on his shorn head...burned in. Note his long fingernails, a sign that this monk was not required to do manual labor."; Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
Subject (aat): portraits
Photographer: Unidentified
Filename: IMP-YDS-RG008-358-0008-0021
Geographic subject: Hunan; China
Subject (unesco): Buddhism; Clergy
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Part of repository: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
Repository name: Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Format: lantern slides
Archival file: impa_Volume289/IMP-YDS-RG008-358-0008-0021.tiff
Repository address: Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Part of series: Oliver and Jennie Logan Papers
Repository email: [email protected]
Date created: 1900/1919
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Legacy record ID: impa-m66371
Access conditions: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/reproductions.html
Coverage date: 1900/1919
Date 1900/1919
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/51513
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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