"A Buddhist priest. Note shorn head. I was told that when a man became a Buddhist monk, he had 9 scars made on his shorn head...burned in. Note his long fingernails, a sign that this monk was not required to do manual labor." Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
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