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Photo 392/28(565)
- Record Id:
- 041-003073716
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003073022
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025721289.0x000a30
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 392/28(565)
- Title:
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Lai-lai-maio (back court) [at Sun-nai-pao]. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
View of courtyard and temple. '...A short distance east of the village marked on the map as Sun-nai-pao [in a note Stein casts some doubt on the correctness of this name], we made a night's halt at a large and interesting temple. It is known as Lai-lai-miao (?) and is situated near high dunes. It seemed fairly old and the sand was invading all of its numerous courts and shrines. With its elaborate and graceful wooden pavilions, balustraded passages, and bridges connecting different shrines it recalled more closely the architecture of celestial mansions mansions as represented in the Ch'ien-fo-tung paintings of the Western Paradise than any of the structures seen by me on Chinese ground. Its remains when completely abandoned to the drift-sand may provide an interesting 'site' for some future excavator a thousand years or more hence. It is evidently a cherished place of pilgrimage for the inhabitants of the flourishing walled villages by the [Kan-chou] river, and I regret not to have been able to secure an account of its origin and tradition.' (i, 520-21). (I.A. Map 46, A2).
Subjects = archaeological expeditions; archaeology; Chinese architecture; exploration; Stein Collection; temples
Location = China; Sun-nai-pao; Xinjiang
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003071109
040-003073022
041-003073716 - Is part of:
- Photo 392 : Stein Collection
Photo 392/28 : Stein Collection: Third Expedition, 1913-16. (First series, small prints). Photographer(s): Stein, Marc Aurel
Photo 392/28(565) : Lai-lai-maio (back court) [at Sun-nai-pao]. Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel - Hierarchy:
- 032-003071109[0029]/040-003073022[0694]/041-003073716
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 392
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- https://idp.bl.uk/collection/3BE297B48AFD48AD8739BD772607434D
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1914
- End Date:
- 1914
- Date Range:
- 24 Aug 1914
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known