History of the expedition in Asia, 1927-1935 : 3 Volumes : List of Plates - National Institute of Informatics / Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

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LIST OF PLATES
Frontispiece The Author in 1933 Frontispiece
PLATE 1 Chi-nien-tien, a part of The Temple of Heaven, Peking PLATE 1
PLATE 2 Outside one of the smaller city gates of Peking PLATE 2
PLATE 3 The north-western corner of the wall of the Chinese City, Peking PLATE 3
PLATE 4 The Jade Fountain in the Western Hills outside Peking PLATE 4
PLATE 5 From the T'ai-miao, the ancestral temple of the Manchu emperors in Peking PLATE 5
PLATE 6 The marble stupa in the grounds of The Yellow Temple, Peking, built by Ch'ien Lung to commemorate the third Tashi Lama PLATE 6
PLATE 7 Street-life in Pao-t'ou PLATE 7
PLATE 7 Our camels passing through the gate of our Pao-t'ou headquarters PLATE 7
PLATE 8 Larson PLATE 8
PLATE 8 Manufacture of camel chests at our Pao-t'ou headquarters PLATE 8
PLATE 9 Barun Sunit Wang (Teh Wang) in 1927. The consort of Barun Sunit Wang PLATE 9
PLATE 10 A Mongol sacrificing at the obo on top of the Bayan-bogdo PLATE 10
PLATE 10 The huge painting with Maydar's image hung up in front of the main temple at Batu-khalagh-sume PLATE 10
PLATE 11 Mongolian ponies cooling off in the Khujirtu-gol PLATE 11
PLATE 11 Hami and the young antelope Dicky PLATE 11
PLATE 12 Cart with fuel (dry cattle-dung) for the lamas at Batu-khalagh-sume PLATE 12
PLATE 13 From the Maydar festival at Batu-khalagh-sume PLATE 13
PLATE 13 The Mongol prince Darkhan Beile attending the Maydar festival at Batu-khalagh-sume PLATE 13
PLATE 14 Jolros Lama, the Living God at Batu-khalagh-sume PLATE 14
PLATE 15 Camels being saddled in Camp Khujirtu-gol PLATE 15
PLATE 16 Haude sending up a pilot-balloon. From the left: Ts'ui, Li, Walz, Haude, Mühlenweg, the author PLATE 16
PLATE 16 Our Chinese students. From the left: Ts'ui, Liu, Ma, Li PLATE 16
PLATE 17 A beautiful Mongolian pony on the steppe PLATE 17
PLATE 17 Mongolian ponies in shaggy winter-coat PLATE 17
PLATE 18 Camp XIII on the Hailutain-gol PLATE 18
PLATE 19 The suburgas at Bayan-shandai-sume (Shande-miao) PLATE 19
PLATE 20 Our camp in front of the temple-town of Shande-miao PLATE 20
PLATE 20 Two high lamas in their quarters, Shande-miao PLATE 20
PLATE 21 Zimmermann on the slope of a sand-dune in the Lang-shan PLATE 21
PLATE 21 The crossing of a canal near San-tao-chiao PLATE 21
PLATE 22 The Dobechyn Gegen, a Living God from Tibet PLATE 22
PLATE 23 The Hempel-Zimmermann caravan in the Lang-shan PLATE 23
PLATE 24 A camping place in the Lang-shan PLATE 24
PLATE 25 Haslund on his swift camel PLATE 25
PLATE 25 Wool buyers at a Chinese trading post PLATE 25
PLATE 26 Our lonely desert camp at Ukh-tokhoi PLATE 26
PLATE 26 Approaching the high sand-dunes PLATE 26
PLATE 27 Arshan-obo with its health spring PLATE 27
PLATE 27 On the slope of a sand-dune PLATE 27
PLATE 28 Winding our way between the high sand-dunes of Alakshan PLATE 28
PLATE 29 Four of our Mongols scouting from the crest of a sand-dune PLATE 29
PLATE 30 Group at Tsondol on the occasion of the Double Tenth Festival PLATE 30
PLATE 30 Boat-building at Tsondol PLATE 30
PLATE 31 The enchanted wood on the Dunda-gol PLATE 31
PLATE 32 The ruler of the Edsen-gol Torguts and the author PLATE 32
PLATE 32 Larson hauls the ‘boat’ ashore after our crossing of Sogho-nor PLATE 32
PLATE 33 Professor Siu Ping-ch'ang PLATE 33
PLATE 33 The author drawing a portrait of a Mongol woman PLATE 33
PLATE 34 A Mongol greeting ― exchange of snuff-bottles between Mate Lama and Tserchi PLATE 34
PLATE 34 A free-born Mongol from Mu-mingghan ― pride and power in repose PLATE 34
PLATE 35 Our camp in the valley-bottom at Tsaghan-burgasun PLATE 35
PLATE 36 The big merchant-caravan setting out from Tsaghan-burgasun over the moon-landscape of the Black Gobi PLATE 36
PLATE 37 Sandstorm in the Black Gobi PLATE 37
PLATE 37 The author carried on a stretcher PLATE 37
PLATE 38 The Christmas camp at Sebestei PLATE 38
PLATE 38 The author, Hummel and Norin in the Christmas camp at Sebestei PLATE 38
PLATE 39 Winter camp in the Gobi, December 28th PLATE 39
PLATE 39 Reaching the foot-hills of the eastern Qarliq-tagh PLATE 39
PLATE 40 Our caravan reaching the city-gate of Hami PLATE 40
PLATE 40 A yard inside the walls of Hami PLATE 40
PLATE 41 A minaret in Hami PLATE 41
PLATE 41 Escort of the Sengtsen Gegen in our courtyard in Hami PLATE 41
PLATE 42 Slicing a Hami melon PLATE 42
PLATE 42 Our Mongols making purchases in Hami. From the left: Mentu, Mate Lama, the Chinese dealer, Batu and Bongkh PLATE 42
PLATE 43 Altunluq-mazar, the grave-yard of the kings of Qomul PLATE 43
PLATE 44 The mazar at Tung-yen-chih in the T'ien-shan PLATE 44
PLATE 44 A »cascade» of once molten stone at Toquz-davan in the T'ien-shan PLATE 44
PLATE 45 The covered bazaar of Pichan PLATE 45
PLATE 45 Mohammedan street-kitchen PLATE 45
PLATE 46 The Toyuq valley PLATE 46
PLATE 47 Our arabas at the foot of the passes near Davan-ch'eng PLATE 47
PLATE 47 Negotiation of the southern pass near Davan-ch'eng PLATE 47
PLATE 48 The Turki baker sells his excellent white bread in the street PLATE 48
PLATE 48 A singing dervish in the street PLATE 48
PLATE 49 Yang Tseng-hsin, the mighty Governor-General of all Sinkiang PLATE 49
PLATE 50 A Peking cart in the dirty main street of Yang-hang, Urumchi PLATE 50
PLATE 50 Araba in one of the flooded main streets of Urumchi PLATE 50
PLATE 51 Lively traffic in a market-place PLATE 51
PLATE 52 The snowy alps of the Bogdo-ula PLATE 52
PLATE 52 The street outside our headquarters in Urumchi PLATE 52
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PLATE 1 Major Hempel in the fir wood, Bogdo-ula PLATE 1
PLATE 1 Kirghiz spring migration in the Bodgo-ula PLATE 1
PLATE 2 A Qazaq village between Chuguchaq and Sergiopol PLATE 2
PLATE 2 Turki gamblers PLATE 2
PLATE 3 The narrow defile in the Jair mountains PLATE 3
PLATE 3 Hokhriekov's house, Chuguchaq PLATE 3
PLATE 4 Fording a stream on the highroad between Chuguchaq and Urumchi PLATE 4
PLATE 4 A Dzungarian oasis flooded by a broken irrigation canal PLATE 4
PLATE 5 Turki peasant types, and a young Tungan soldier PLATE 5
PLATE 6 Climbing a snowy slope of the Bogdo-ula PLATE 6
PLATE 6 The Bogdo-ula range from the south, across Lake Aidin-köl PLATE 6
PLATE 7 Governor-General Chin Shu-jen in his yamen PLATE 7
PLATE 7 Professor P. L. Yuan at his plane-table PLATE 7
PLATE 8 Boy wading through the mire of a street in Urumchi PLATE 8
PLATE 8 The Memorial Hall that Governor-General Yang built to himself in Urumchi PLATE 8
PLATE 9 The wall round the Chinese city in Chuguchaq PLATE 9
PLATE 9 In front of a Chinese inn, Sinkiang PLATE 9
PLATE 10 Scene from the Torgut temple-yurt presented to King Gustaf PLATE 10
PLATE 11 »Marco Polo» in Hangchow PLATE 11
PLATE 11 From a temple-terrace in Hangchow PLATE 11
PLATE 12 A Soochow canal PLATE 12
PLATE 13 Vincent Bendix PLATE 13
PLATE 14 The author decorates Mate Lama with the King's gold medal PLATE 14
PLATE 15 The camels of the Gobi-group PLATE 15
PLATE 15 In the camp at Batu-khalagh-sume PLATE 15
PLATE 16 The caravan of the Gobi-group starting on November 11th 1929 PLATE 16
PLATE 16 The last breakfast in the camp at Batu-khalagh-sume PLATE 16
PLATE 17 A part of the Shara-muren-sume PLATE 17
PLATE 17 Lama lads around a prayer-wheel, Shara-muren-sume PLATE 17
PLATE 18 Temples of the Durbet Wang PLATE 18
PLATE 18 A prayer hall in Khabchilin-sume, Durbet PLATE 18
PLATE 19 Deva Gung's camp. The temple-yurt in the foreground PLATE 19
PLATE 19 The altar in Deva Gung's temple-yurt PLATE 19
PLATE 20 The author and the Durbet prince in front of the latter's palace PLATE 20
PLATE 21 The wife of Deva Gung outside their magnificent guest-yurt PLATE 21
PLATE 22 Prayer-hall in Boro-tologoin-sume, Chakhar PLATE 22
PLATE 23 Davan-jalangin-sume PLATE 23
PLATE 23 Harring-kerva-sume PLATE 23
PLATE 24 Khadain-sume, Joel Eriksson's missionary station PLATE 24
PLATE 24 Chinese village on the road northwards from Kalgan PLATE 24
PLATE 25 The Pei-hai island in Peking with its crowning stupa PLATE 25
PLATE 25 Wu-t'a-ssu, outside Peking PLATE 25
PLATE 26 Peking living quarters seen from the city wall PLATE 26
PLATE 26 The Lung-fu-ssu market, Peking PLATE 26
PLATE 27 A young male camel PLATE 27
PLATE 28 A Mongolian express-cart drawn by two cows PLATE 28
PLATE 28 Camels in fine winter dress PLATE 28
PLATE 29 A Mongol lad, full of mirth and curiosity at the queer garb of foreigners PLATE 29
PLATE 30 Camel caravan moving slowly over the Gobi PLATE 30
PLATE 30 Mongols at their best PLATE 30
PLATE 31 Supper on our first day on the road to Jehol PLATE 31
PLATE 31 Halt for lunch on the road to Jehol PLATE 31
PLATE 32 The eastern gate in the wall enclosing the Potala, Jehol PLATE 32
PLATE 33 A gateway in the Potala temple grounds PLATE 33
PLATE 34 Total view of the Potala across the Lion valley PLATE 34
PLATE 34 In the Potala temple grounds PLATE 34
PLATE 35 The heaven-storming façade of the Potala PLATE 35
PLATE 36 Söderbom, Hu Ta-lama, Mr Liang and Montell in Jehol PLATE 36
PLATE 37 The Golden Pavilion in the Potala PLATE 37
PLATE 38 Total view of the Hsin-kung as seen from the Summer Palace PLATE 38
PLATE 38 The Hsin-kung seen from the south-west PLATE 38
PLATE 39 The golden roof of the Hsin-kung PLATE 39
PLATE 39 The Hsin-kung PLATE 39
PLATE 40 Chinese farmsteads outside Ch'eng-teh. In the background Ta-fo-ssu PLATE 40
PLATE 40 The courtyard in front of the Ta-fo-ssu PLATE 40
PLATE 41 View from the Ta-fo-ssu across the Je-ho valley PLATE 41
PLATE 42 The P'u-lo-tien PLATE 42
PLATE 42 The Ili-miao PLATE 42
PLATE 43 Hsü-kung-ko, the central hall of the P'u-lo-tien PLATE 43
PLATE 44 The Lo-han-t'ang, Jehol PLATE 44
PLATE 44 Some of the five hundred disciples of Buddha in the Lo-han-t'ang PLATE 44
PLATE 45 In the Luan-ho gorges PLATE 45
PLATE 46 The Great Wall from the Luan-ho PLATE 46
PLATE 46 The escort we left when passing The Great Wall PLATE 46
PLATE 47 A boat on the Luan-ho PLATE 47
PLATE 48 The ferry over the Luan-ho at Sha-ch'iao PLATE 48
PLATE 48 Youngsters coming to inspect our boat PLATE 48
PLATE 49 Lung-shan, Luan-ho PLATE 49
PLATE 49 Boats on the Luan-ho stopping for the night PLATE 49
PLATE 50 A flotilla with grain for the Jehol troops PLATE 50
PLATE 51 A bear dance in the courtyard of the first Swedish House, Peking PLATE 51
PLATE 51 Around the tea-table in the Swedish House PLATE 51
PLATE 52 The Danish Telegraph Mess in Peking, the second Swedish House PLATE 52
PLATE 52 The temple replica for Chicago in course of manufacture in Peking PLATE 52
PLATE 53 Temple ruins from the time of Ch'ien Lung behind the present Summer Palace outside Peking PLATE 53
PLATE 53 Wu-men, the main entrance to the Forbidden City, Peking PLATE 53
PLATE 54 The gilded image of the Green Tara in the Ili-miao, Jehol PLATE 54
PLATE 55 The replica of the Jehol Golden Pavilion being erected in Chicago PLATE 55
PLATE 56 The postage stamps of the expedition and the Chinese painting that served as a model PLATE 56
PLATE 57 Packing collections in the third Swedish House, April 1933 PLATE 57
PLATE 58 Gilded Buddha statue in the Nien-hua-ssu, Peking PLATE 58
PLATE 58 The Buddha in Yen-shou-ssu, with which the local peasants refused to part PLATE 58
PLATE 59 View from the Jade Fountain across rice-fields towards the lake at the Summer Palace outside Peking PLATE 59
PLATE 60 Courtyards in the last Swedish House in Peking PLATE 60
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PLATE 1 Bökenkamp and Bexell on their return to civilization. Kuei-hua, Oct. 31st 1933 PLATE 1
PLATE 1 Our brand new cars passing the Marble Bridge between Pei-hai and Chung-hai in Peking PLATE 1
PLATE 2 Shiretu-ju, a lama temple in Kuei-hua PLATE 2
PLATE 3 Heavy traffic in the Kuei-hua pass PLATE 3
PLATE 3 Repacking the lorries at camp no. 2, Bagha-nor PLATE 3
PLATE 4 The Dilowa Gegen PLATE 4
PLATE 4 One of our petrol camels PLATE 4
PLATE 5 The Sixth Tashi Lama PLATE 5
PLATE 6 Sandy steppe with thorny tussocks PLATE 6
PLATE 6 After the accident in Yang-chang-tze-ku PLATE 6
PLATE 7 Camp no. 9, Unyen-usu PLATE 7
PLATE 7 Chinese wool-caravan ready to start from Unyen-usu PLATE 7
PLATE 8 A Mongol couple with heavy burdens PLATE 8
PLATE 8 Chinese camel-man PLATE 8
PLATE 9 Desert formations at Yingen-khuduk PLATE 9
PLATE 10 Soft eroded desert ground around Sogho-nor PLATE 10
PLATE 10 Mesa fragment on the northern shore of Sogho-nor PLATE 10
PLATE 11 Our camp at Baller PLATE 11
PLATE 12 The prince of the Edsen-gol Torguts PLATE 12
PLATE 12 The Mongol Chagdur and his mount PLATE 12
PLATE 13 Georg Söderbom doing repair work PLATE 13
PLATE 13 The canvas strips used on sandy ground in the Gobi PLATE 13
PLATE 14 The temple-yurt of the Khalkha refugees on the Edsen-gol PLATE 14
PLATE 14 Typical landscape in the Edsen-gol delta PLATE 14
PLATE 15 The ruined castle of Dambin Lama at Kung-pao-ch'üan PLATE 15
PLATE 15 Mongol with daughter PLATE 15
PLATE 16 Bergman making a plan of the ruined fortress at Ming-shui PLATE 16
PLATE 16 The convoy encamped at the Ming-shui ruin in the Pei-shan PLATE 16
PLATE 17 The war-ravaged village Huang-lu-kang, eastern Sinkiang PLATE 17
PLATE 17 Our quarters in Hami PLATE 17
PLATE 18 Turki barber grappling with Georg's thin locks PLATE 18
PLATE 18 A horse-drawn araba on a Sinkiang highway PLATE 18
PLATE 19 Tombs in Altunluq-mazar, Hami PLATE 19
PLATE 20 The war-ravaged Mohammedan town, Hami PLATE 20
PLATE 20 Tombs in Altunluq-mazar, Hami PLATE 20
PLATE 21 Lombardy poplars lining an irrigation canal PLATE 21
PLATE 21 The mosque at Altunluq-mazar, Hami PLATE 21
PLATE 22 On the crest of the pass between Hami and Turfan in the T'ien-shan PLATE 22
PLATE 22 Turki youngsters en route from Hami to Turfan to be enrolled in Ma Chung-ying's army PLATE 22
PLATE 23 The narrow road through the Sengim Valley near Turfan PLATE 23
PLATE 24 Tamarisk mound and sand-dune PLATE 24
PLATE 25 Worming our way through the blocked defile at Arghai-bulaq in the Toqsun pass PLATE 25
PLATE 26 Crossing the Khaidu-gol at Qara-shahr PLATE 26
PLATE 26 Turki workmen breaking the ice on the Khaidu-gol PLATE 26
PLATE 27 New Mohammedan building in Korla where the Tungan commandant had his headquarters PLATE 27
PLATE 28 Alley in Korla PLATE 28
PLATE 28 Canal in the middle of a street in Bugur PLATE 28
PLATE 29 Hummel treating a sick Turki woman in our yard in Korla PLATE 29
PLATE 29 The quarters in Korla where we stayed as prisoners PLATE 29
PLATE 30 The young Tungan general, Ma Chung-ying (»Big Horse») PLATE 30
PLATE 30 Tserat, Effe Hill and Jomcha PLATE 30
PLATE 31 An alley in Korla PLATE 31
PLATE 32 Flooded road in the Korla oasis PLATE 32
PLATE 32 The bridge over the Konche-darya at Korla PLATE 32
PLATE 33 The flotilla gliding down the Konche-darya PLATE 33
PLATE 33 Loading the canoes, Konche-darya PLATE 33
PLATE 34 Plundering an osprey's nest, Konche-darya PLATE 34
PLATE 34 Lopliq hunter in full attire, Konche-darya PLATE 34
PLATE 35 The waterfall at Gurgur PLATE 35
PLATE 35 Dam-structure in the old bed of the Konche-darya at Temenpu PLATE 35
PLATE 36 Sheep grazing on the bank of the Qum-darya PLATE 36
PLATE 36 The place of bifurcation at Temenpu PLATE 36
PLATE 37 Konstantin with a fine pheasant, Konche-darya PLATE 37
PLATE 37 The trucks slowly toiling up a dusty slope between Ying-p'an and Yardang-bulaq PLATE 37
PLATE 38 The broad waters of the Qum-darya PLATE 38
PLATE 39 Erosion effects on the left bank of the Qum-darya PLATE 39
PLATE 40 View from the top of a mesa across reed-beds, glimpses of the Qum-darya and mesa formations. May 15th 1934 PLATE 40
PLATE 40 In the maze of the Qum-darya delta. May 15th 1934 PLATE 40
PLATE 41 A mesa island with a natural pillar in the northern part of Lop-nor PLATE 41
PLATE 41 The author in his canoe on Lop-nor PLATE 41
PLATE 42 Killing fish with oars in the shallow northern part of Lop-nor PLATE 42
PLATE 42 A Lopliq with one of the huge Lop-nor fishes PLATE 42
PLATE 43 Approaching the defile at Arghai-bulaq in the Toqsun pass PLATE 43
PLATE 44 Turki carpenter PLATE 44
PLATE 45 G. A. Apresov, I. C. Yew and C. C. Kung PLATE 45
PLATE 46 Turki woman PLATE 46
PLATE 47 Ancient willow with hollow trunk in an oasis near Hami PLATE 47
PLATE 47 Liu Ying-ling, the civil governor of Hami, and Yolbars Khan, the commandant PLATE 47
PLATE 48 Bridge at camp no. 114 just south of Anhsi PLATE 48
PLATE 48 Some of the ante-chapels with decayed porches at the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, Tun-huang PLATE 48
PLATE 49 The author in one of the temples, the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas PLATE 49
PLATE 49 Sculptures in the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas PLATE 49
PLATE 50 Sand-dunes in the Ghashun-gobi, Dec. 4th 1934 PLATE 50
PLATE 50 Dry sandy river bed west of »Sui-Sin-bulaq», Dec. 7th 1934 PLATE 50
PLATE 51 Parker C. Chen at the theodolite PLATE 51
PLATE 51 Curiously shaped mesa fragments to the east of the Lop-nor depression, Dec. 10th 1934 PLATE 51
PLATE 52 Watch-tower and li-mark, Kansu PLATE 52
PLATE 52 Ruined Chinese pavilion at Yü-men PLATE 52
PLATE 53 Snow-crowned peaks and glaciers in the Richthofen Mts., the northernmost range of the Nan-shan PLATE 53
PLATE 54 The God of the Carpenters in a Taoist temple near Suchow PLATE 54
PLATE 54 Chinese temple architecture, Wen-shu-ku, south-west of Suchow PLATE 54
PLATE 55 Tso Tsung-t'ang's avenue along the Ku-lang-ho, Jan. 24th 1935 PLATE 55
PLATE 55 The Ta-fo-ssu at Shan-tan PLATE 55
PLATE 56 Dreary loess country in winter PLATE 56
PLATE 56 In every Kansu village ragged people crowded round the cars PLATE 56

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