Altar of the Wa-Ssu Hunters

Title: Altar of the Wa-Ssu Hunters
Caption: The hunter's god of the Wa-Ssu aboriginies worshiped before hunting the pandas at Kuan-Chai near Wen-Ch'uan.
Identifier: DCG_003
Alternative Identifier: 279-11f
Description: Flat stone with pelts and pieces of cloth beside it. An empty glass bottle and burning incense are at the foot of the altar.
Creator: Graham, David Crockett
Date Created: 1941
Location: Baitukan (Kuan-Chai, Sichuan)
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/6998992/baitukan.html
Event: 1941 Graham's Giant Panda Hunt
Original Format: glass plate
Source: Whitman College and Northwest Archives
Provenance: Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughers of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2023-05-08
Contributor: Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
Subject: Giant pandas; Pandas
People: David Crockett Graham