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Title
Milking the deer - a fable, Manchuria, ca.1888
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1888
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
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
“Filial Piety. A boy clad himself in a deer skin that he might be able to go forward and milk the deer (the deer mistaking him for a young deer) and then take the milk home to his mother. Two men, out hunting, nearly kill him mistaking him for a fawn. After he explained to them, they loudly extolled his filial piety”. Ink and watercolour illustration showing the son, in deer skin, kneeling before the two hunters. This is one of several watercolours showing cultural aspects from Manchuria. The United Presbyterian Church established a field there in 1872 when Dr John Ross developed stations from the port of Newchwang to the state capital of Moukden [Shenyang]. He also made inroads into Korea and translated the New Testament into Korean.
Type
image
Format
Watercolors, 24 x 28.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75653455-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79365
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75653455-1.jpg
Subject
Animals
Fables
Folk tales
Illustrations
Time Period
circa 1888
Place
Asia
China
Manchuria
Source
Acc.7548/F/16 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75653453 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs and Illustrations from the Manchuria mission of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, ca.1888
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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