"Faminites in wet (?) sheds 4' x 4' x 8' -- sleep very near the ground -- The city of the dead and near dead -- These huts are among the graves where they dig up the roots of the grain (?) until nothing is left but sand. This and coffin boards supply a little fuel -- Getting down next to the source of supply -- The 'pennies for a dead man's eyes' are not respected here.The last of the series of Famine pictures taken in and beyond Tiangkiangpu in northern Kiangsu. Feb-Mar 1912 D. S. Dye" [now Jiangsu] A burial mound with a village not too far from it.
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