Cave Tomb Entrance with Chinese Man

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Title: Cave Tomb Entrance with Chinese Man
Caption: Weather-worn Han Dynasty cave tombs [NOT the same ones]
Identifier: DCG_050
Alternative Identifier: 206, 363
Description: Three square-shaped cave entrances are in a row. A Chinese man walks away from them with a pair of large baskets. The entrances appear to be about twice the height of the man, and just as wide. A forest of trees grows above the caves.
Creator: Graham, David Crockett
Date Created: 1926-1928
Location: Qianwei, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1798232/qianwei-xian.html
Original Format: Glass plate
Relation: Diagram of Interior of Cave Tombs; Rev. Thomas Torrance with a Han Dynasty Brick; Cave Tomb Entrance with Missionary; Opening to Multilevel Cave Tomb; Clay Human Figures from Cave Tomb
Source: Whitman College and Northwest Archives
Provenance: Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-05-27
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Graham, David Crockett (1932). The Ancient Caves of Szechwan Province, China. No.2916–From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 80, Art. 16, pp.1-13, pls. 1-16.; Graham, David Crockett. 1928. Religion in Szechuan Province, China. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 80(4): 27-30.; Torrance, Thomas. 1930-1931. Notes on the Cave Tombs and Ancient Burial Mounds of Western Szechwan. Journal of the West China Border Research Society 4: 88-96.

Item sets: Graham Family Archives

Media: DCG_050_206_Row_Han_Cave_Tombs.jpg

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