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Title
Student ahungs (mullahs) studying at mosque in Xining, Qinghai, China, 1936
Creator
Pickens, Claude L
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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
Three of the more than eighty student ahungs (mullahs) from all over the Northwest and even from the coastal provinces who study at this main mosque of Sining. The round caps immediately distinguish a Moslem from a Chinese, or as is commonly said, "the Hsiao Chiao from the Ta Chiao.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 7 x 9.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2976 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0001-0008
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2976
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0001-0008.jpg
Subject
Students
Moslems
Mosques
Group portraits
Time Period
1936
Place
China
Tsinghai
Source
YDS/RG008/333/0001/0008 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
impa-m980

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