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A temple guardian and dragon placed at the entrance of Hsi Shan (West Mountain) Buddhist Temple to frighten evil spirits away., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A street peddler in Kweyang uses as a back drop for his display a sheet covered with a crude advertisement for porcelain-mending cement he is selling., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A small peasant boy drives a water buffalo, blind folded one eye and hitched to a stone grinder, to break up bean stocks which will be used as pig fodder., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A shopkeeper's wife., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A sampan with passengers and goods on its regualr run to the market towns along Kunming Lake., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A potter of Kweichow carrying his wares to market., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann

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A peasant girl in a typical Yunnanese straw hat selling in a Kunming street. A harness shop in the background., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A pack train of Mongolian ponies moves over an arched bridge to a nearby town. On animals, in carts or baskets peasants carry the products of their small farms often more than 50 miles to a county market., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A one-eyed Buddhist monk and neophytes chanting a monotonous liturgy., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A makeshift altar erected in the rocks of a mountain. Incense sticks are placed in rocks and urns to honor the memory of family ancestors., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A lumber merchant of Yunnan sorting stock in his courtyard., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A Hunan peasant in his rain hat leveling an irrigated rice field., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A Hindu merchant in an expressive gesture so characteristic of most Indian conversations., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann

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A Hindu girl in a group of gaily painted plaster figures representing scenes from the rich Hindu mythology. These figures of a naive and definitely provincial style are often displayed in stage-like show cases about the modest little village temples in Bengal., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann

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A group of worshippers entering the tower gateway of the Great Shiva Temple at Conjeeveram, South India., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A fortune teller in the streets of Kunming, capital of Yunnan. As the chart indicates, his prognostications are based on a simple system of physiognomy., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A Durgha festival at Dibrugarh, Assam, terminates in a frenzied procession to the banks of the Brahmaputra from where images of the goddess are carried out on boats and sunk to the bottom of the great river., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann
A crippled beggar in exhausted sleep at the roadside to the Temple of the Blue Mountain. Many of these miserable creatures drag themselves to these annual celebrations to receive alms from the thousands of Buddhist pilgrims., ca. 1944–1945

John Gutmann

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A temple guardian and dragon placed at the entrance of Hsi Shan (West Mountain) Buddhist Temple to frighten evil spirits away., ca. 1944–1945

A street peddler in Kweyang uses as a back drop for his display a sheet covered with a crude advertisement for porcelain-mending cement he is selling., ca. 1944–1945

A small peasant boy drives a water buffalo, blind folded one eye and hitched to a stone grinder, to break up bean stocks which will be used as pig fodder., ca. 1944–1945

A shopkeeper's wife., ca. 1944–1945

A sampan with passengers and goods on its regualr run to the market towns along Kunming Lake., ca. 1944–1945

A potter of Kweichow carrying his wares to market., ca. 1944–1945

A peasant girl in a typical Yunnanese straw hat selling in a Kunming street. A harness shop in the background., ca. 1944–1945

A pack train of Mongolian ponies moves over an arched bridge to a nearby town. On animals, in carts or baskets peasants carry the products of their small farms often more than 50 miles to a county market., ca. 1944–1945

A one-eyed Buddhist monk and neophytes chanting a monotonous liturgy., ca. 1944–1945

A makeshift altar erected in the rocks of a mountain. Incense sticks are placed in rocks and urns to honor the memory of family ancestors., ca. 1944–1945

A lumber merchant of Yunnan sorting stock in his courtyard., ca. 1944–1945

A Hunan peasant in his rain hat leveling an irrigated rice field., ca. 1944–1945

A Hindu merchant in an expressive gesture so characteristic of most Indian conversations., ca. 1944–1945

A Hindu girl in a group of gaily painted plaster figures representing scenes from the rich Hindu mythology. These figures of a naive and definitely provincial style are often displayed in stage-like show cases about the modest little village temples in Bengal., ca. 1944–1945

A group of worshippers entering the tower gateway of the Great Shiva Temple at Conjeeveram, South India., ca. 1944–1945

A fortune teller in the streets of Kunming, capital of Yunnan. As the chart indicates, his prognostications are based on a simple system of physiognomy., ca. 1944–1945

A Durgha festival at Dibrugarh, Assam, terminates in a frenzied procession to the banks of the Brahmaputra from where images of the goddess are carried out on boats and sunk to the bottom of the great river., ca. 1944–1945

A crippled beggar in exhausted sleep at the roadside to the Temple of the Blue Mountain. Many of these miserable creatures drag themselves to these annual celebrations to receive alms from the thousands of Buddhist pilgrims., ca. 1944–1945