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Title	Lanzhou (China), portrait of a man and an inflated sheepskin raft
Caption	Print 1665: Front view of one-man skin raft used on upper reaches of Yellow River. Constructed of inflated sheepskin affixed to a framework of light poles. Moslemia (Northwest China). China.
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - China
Notes	Date on envelope incorrect
Date of Photograph	1933 or 1934
Photographer's Note	China. Skin Rafts
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	Travel magazine photo caption: The small one-man raft generally measures about six by ten feet in size. It weighs only a few pounds and is easily carried. Caption from Harrison Forman's book Changing China: To navigate the shallow, rapid waters of the upper Yellow River, the Chinese have designed a skin raft called a fa-tze, it is constructed of a lattice of slender poles to which are attached inflated sheepskins, goatskins, or oxhides stuffed with wool. A one-man raft will float about half a ton of freight.
Source of Descriptive Information	Photographic print; Travel. (May, 1934). Rafting on the Yellow River. Vol. LXIII, No. 1, p. 27-29, 49.
Related Resources	Forman, H. (1948). Changing China. New York: Crown Publishers
Subject TGM	Men Rafts Hides & skins
Subject LC	Yellow River (China)
Continent	Asia
General Region	East Asia
Nation/Country	China
State/Province	Gansu (province)
City/Place	Lanzhou
Geographic Feature	Yellow River (river)
Type	Image
Original Collection	Harrison Forman Collection
Original Item Size	35mm
Original Item Medium	Black-and-white negatives Cellulose nitrate film
Original Item Location	Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 14
Derivative Format	Photographic print located in Harrison Forman Collection Print 1665, Box L12
Provenance	Gift of Sandra Carlyle Forman, 1987
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital ID	fr205371
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive: Asia and Middle East
Digital Format	Image/JP2
Project Name	NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
Part of	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive

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