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Identifier: scienceguide7692amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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IJade: A Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion.Field Museum of Natural History Publication 154, 1912. sally represented in jade carvings, and why they vary so richly and amazingly. Some are full-bodied like lions, while some are attenuated, convoluted, and very reptilian indeed. Some have branching horns and others are decorated with manes that are singularly ike human hair. An old (hinese classic ascribes nine resemblances to the dragon; its horns are like those of a deer, its head that of a camel, its eyes are those of a devil, it has the neck of a snake, the abdomen of a cockle shell, the scales of a carp, the claws of an eagle, the soles of its feet are like those of a tiger, and its ear like those of an ox. Even in the matter of claws this miraculous beast holds to no fixed rule for, although the imperial dragon has five to each of its four feet, ordinary dragons have but four. Perhaps because of the fact that Chinese designs and decorative motives
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A GROUP OF WHEELS OF LIFE CARVED IN WHITE JADE Two have movablecenters and can be rotated by holding the loose central piece between thumb andforefinger. The other one has a swastika for a center. Whitlock Collection 20 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLET have been handed downfrom very ancient times,Chinese artists havelearned to express thesedesigns in highly conven-tionalized treatment.In no instance is thismore obvious than inthe treatment of thedragon in carved jade.His sinuous body hastaken on angular bendsor perhaps more frequently has dividedand branched like a heraldic mantle. Hisfeet have disappeared, or where present,the toes sometimes spread Hke the spokesof a wheel, the claws joining on to eachother in a circle.

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no.76-92
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  • bookid:scienceguide7692amer
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:IMLS___LSTA___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:122
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
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