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Photograph of memorial posts in Chingmiren, taken in 1936 by anthropologist Christop von Fürer-Haimendorf #EYAMemories ow.ly/qUIs5104xbp
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The Arnott papers offer extensive material on West African oral literature and folklore—proverbs, poetry, songs, and cultural traditions from Fulfulde, Fula, Fulani, Tiv and Hausa communities across Nigeria and neighbouring regions. #EYAFolklore archives.soas.ac.uk/records/PP_MS_…
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The papers of Arnold Bake include his notes on Indian music and folklore, alongside songs in multiple Indian languages with English and Dutch translations archives.soas.ac.uk/records/PP_MS_… #EYAFolklore
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Former SOAS academic and linguist Alice Werner wrote extensively on African mythology. Explore her work here: devblog.soas.ac.uk/archives/2014/… #EYAFolklore
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Marie Blanche Head’s documentation of Chin‑Kuki‑Mizo (Zomi) folk‑lore offers an important contribution to the study of Tibeto‑Burman cultural heritage in the Chin Hills of Burma (Myanmar). #EYAFolklore archives.soas.ac.uk/records/MS_381…
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Hausa folk-lore, customs, proverbs, etc. collected and transliterated with English translation and note, 1913. #EYAFolklore ow.ly/GFIv50ZQxV9
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Indo-Chinese gleaner; containing miscellaneous communications on the literature, history, philosophy, mythology, &c. of the Indo-Chinese nations, 1820. From the library of Robert Morrison #EYAFolklore ow.ly/Rjpn50ZQxqR
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वृन्दावन शोध संस्थान में सांस्कृतिक वस्तुएँ: सचित्र पांडुलिपियाँ; Illustration showing Arjuna, Bhīṣma and Kṛṣṇa from a manuscript of Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra #EYAFolklore ow.ly/Cci450ZQwvo
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Madupurekavi. A Sinhalese ballad on a legend of the healing of a Ṣēramān-rāja' s headache through worship of the goddess Pattini with dances and sacrifices. Written on palm-leaves. #EYAFolklore ow.ly/z6Gs50ZQwa7
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In celebration of #WorldAnimalDay we want to share these cute monkeys by Kitao Masayoshi from his 1813 drawing manual Chōjū ryakugashiki ow.ly/oQrN50ZQzNe
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Mohammed's winged mare (buraq) from Paintings illustrating Turkish costumes (MS 60368), late C18th. #EYAFolklore
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A #EYASurprise in Persian poetry ms 46453 is a snake skin! It came to London in the 1920s via St Petersburg. We think it may have been used to ward off pests and rodents from eating the manuscript.
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The Chōsen shisetsu gyōretsu zukan handscroll painting shows a procession of Korean Ambassadors on a visit to Japan in 1655. It is over 12 metres long! #EYASurprise ow.ly/AtCf50ZwzJ0
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One of the more unusual items in our collections is a lock of hair belonging to James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission! #EYASurprise
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Example of mail art by Hassan Musa. These small-scale works are sent through the regular mail as “free art” to surprise friends and all persons who glimpse at them along the way and afterwards #EYASurprise #https://archives.soas.ac.uk/records/MS_381333
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A view of Mount Fuji from under Mannen Bridge by Hokusai Katsushika, c. 1830 #EYAArchitecture ow.ly/eoLF50ZriBb
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Chinese post office at Nanning photographed early C20th by Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland, officer in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. #EYAArchitecture ow.ly/BO1W50ZriiR
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Nyatapol temple is one of the few traditional buildings in Bhaktapur that survived the 2015 earthquake intact. Photo by cIRcle, Uni of British Columbia Library, 2018 as part of a project to document the aftermath of the earthquake. #EYAArchitecture
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Photograph of the Augustus Bridge and Dresden cathedral, Dresden, Germany taken by tea merchant, John C Oswald in 1887. #EYAArchitecture
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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Hong Kong. Photograph taken by Herny Rue c. 1910-1913 #EYAArchitecture #https://digital.soas.ac.uk/Documents/Detail/r.c.-cathedral-hong-kong/204650
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