Portable raft made of goat skins, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, 1936

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Title: Portable raft made of goat skins, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, 1936
Creator: Pickens, Claude L., 1900-1985
Published / Created: 1936
Publication Place: Kansu, Lanchow, China, Asia
Description: A portable goat skin raft which is used in the water down stream and carried on the back of a man upstream. Many such small rafts are fastened together to make one of the hundred skins or more to transport large cargo or a number of people to cities down the Yellow River.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Extent: 7 x 9.5 cm.

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Collection / Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1834-2002
Container / Volume: Box 333 | Folder 1

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