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Head of giant Buddha at Leshan, Sichuan, China, ca.1915-1925

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Title: Head of giant Buddha at Leshan, Sichuan, China, ca.1915-1925
Creator: Adams, Archibald
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915/1925
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: "The whole figure reaches to the river below. It is red sandstone -- occasionally someone would have shrubbery growth removed and the face white-washed. Compare size of man standing on head. Carved in 713-735 AD" Head of the giant Buddha sculpture
moss is visible growing from its head and parts of its face. A person is standing on top of the head.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 15.5 x 20.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m8944 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-001-0001-0007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m8944
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-001-0001-0007.jpg
Subject: Monuments
Buddhism
General views
Time Period: 1915/1925
Place: Asia
China
Szechwan
Source: YDS/RG008/001/0001/0007 [File]
Relation: Archibald Adams Papers
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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