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Laborer., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
Kweichow potters carrying their earthenware to the market. By far the most important means used in Chinese transportation is the carrying pole. With a well balanced load of from 100 to 150 lbs. a Chinese might be on the road from 12-14 hours., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
Kunming canal scene with one-cabin houseboats each of which makes a lifetime home for an entire family. In the background wood piled high and brought in on sampans from the mountains to be sold in town., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
Kachin girls at a tribal festival. The meal consists of meat and rice wrapped in huge fronds. The silver ornament worn is a customary display of personal wealth. Kachin tribesmen furnished the most daring scouts of the jungle war against the Japanese in the hills of Northern Burma. Most of Dr. Seagrave's famous Burmese nurses were Kachin girls, trained by the "Burma Surgeon" himself., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
Junks on hte Yuan River in Chenyuan, Kweichow Province. Walls of buildings are covered with propaganda slogans of the national government in Chungking. Such as: To Win in War and Reconstruction Major Emphasis is on Conscription, or: Death to Traitors. The buildings in the background are brivate shrines of wealthy families., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
John Gutmann and Dana Burns, 1935

John Gutmann
Inside the central hall of the Temple of the Blue Mountain beneath the towering figure of a guardian god a Buddhist monk tells pilgrims their fortune., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann

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Incense sticks are laid out for sale to worshippers at the occasion of the many religious holidays in China., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann

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In San Francisco, ca. 1940

John Gutmann
In India men and women, poor and rich, enjoy smoking the Hookah (water pipe)., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
In improvised open kitchens pilgrims prepare a midday meal and rest before starting the final climb to the "Blue Mountain" temple., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
In contrast to the average Indian the neatly pressed linen Dhoti and his general corpulence indicate a man of means and potition seen with his small daughter in a business street of Calcutta., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann

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In a temple court of South India, a sacred tree with snake-stones where floral offerings are made for protection against fatal snake-bite., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
In a public cemetary of Kunming, a Chinese soldier reads the inscription of war memorial in memory of Yunnanese soldiers killed in combat., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
In a Mysore village women and children carry holiday offerings to a nearby temple., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
Hysterical mourners in their customary white clothes are guided along in a funeral procession through the mountainous Miao country in Kweichow Province., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
Hunanese peasant plowing his irrigated rice paddy with a water buffalo and the primitive wooden plow used in China since ancient times., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann
Hill people of Yunnan., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann

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Laborer., ca. 1944-1945

Kweichow potters carrying their earthenware to the market. By far the most important means used in Chinese transportation is the carrying pole. With a well balanced load of from 100 to 150 lbs. a Chinese might be on the road from 12-14 hours., ca. 1944-1945

Kunming canal scene with one-cabin houseboats each of which makes a lifetime home for an entire family. In the background wood piled high and brought in on sampans from the mountains to be sold in town., ca. 1944-1945

John Gutmann and Dana Burns, 1935

Inside the central hall of the Temple of the Blue Mountain beneath the towering figure of a guardian god a Buddhist monk tells pilgrims their fortune., ca. 1944-1945

Incense sticks are laid out for sale to worshippers at the occasion of the many religious holidays in China., ca. 1944-1945

In San Francisco, ca. 1940

In India men and women, poor and rich, enjoy smoking the Hookah (water pipe)., ca. 1944-1945

In improvised open kitchens pilgrims prepare a midday meal and rest before starting the final climb to the "Blue Mountain" temple., ca. 1944-1945

In contrast to the average Indian the neatly pressed linen Dhoti and his general corpulence indicate a man of means and potition seen with his small daughter in a business street of Calcutta., ca. 1944-1945

In a temple court of South India, a sacred tree with snake-stones where floral offerings are made for protection against fatal snake-bite., ca. 1944-1945

In a public cemetary of Kunming, a Chinese soldier reads the inscription of war memorial in memory of Yunnanese soldiers killed in combat., ca. 1944-1945

In a Mysore village women and children carry holiday offerings to a nearby temple., ca. 1944-1945

Hysterical mourners in their customary white clothes are guided along in a funeral procession through the mountainous Miao country in Kweichow Province., ca. 1944-1945

Hunanese peasant plowing his irrigated rice paddy with a water buffalo and the primitive wooden plow used in China since ancient times., ca. 1944-1945

Hill people of Yunnan., ca. 1944-1945