Wa-Ssu Hunters and Dogs
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Title
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Wa-Ssu Hunters and Dogs
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Caption
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Wa-Ssu hunters and their hunting dogs, 1941 near Li-Fan.
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Identifier
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DCG_001
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Alternative Identifier
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257-6c
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Description
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This portrait shows six Wa-Ssu panda hunters in their Indigenous style dress and turbans with rifles. There are two dogs of different breeds that they use for hunting pandas. In the published version, the image is flipped horizontally.
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Creator
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Graham, David Crockett
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Date Created
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1941
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Location
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Baitukan (Kuan-Chai, Sichuan)
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Original Format
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glass plate
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Source
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Whitman College and Northwest Archives
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Provenance
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Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughers of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
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Publisher
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SIUE
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Record Date
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2023-05-06
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Contributor
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Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
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Type
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Still Image
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Published In
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Graham, David Crockett. 1942. How the Baby Pandas were Captured. Natural History 45(1): 20.
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abstract
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"Some of the hunters who left their farms and took up the search for giant pandas at the request of Dr. Graham. At one time last fall more than seventy hunters and forty dog were scouring the mountains - the largest panda hunt ever organized at one time, and ccrtainly one ol the most succesful, since two baby pandas were captured."
