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New Year's sacrifice on new year's eve for a field deity behind the mission station in Hoschuwan. Roast chicken, wine, oil, tea, cakes. One group follows the next.

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Title	New Year's sacrifice on new year's eve for a field deity behind the mission station in Hoschuwan. Roast chicken, wine, oil, tea, cakes. One group follows the next.
Type of title	translation
Original caption	Neujahrsopfer am Sylvesterabend vor einem Feldgeist hinter der Station Hoschuwan. Gebratene Hühner, Wein, Oel, Tee, Kuchen. Eine Partie löst die andere ab.
Description	Note translation: The German name used to indicate new year's eve - Sylvester - actually means 31st December, but is presumably being used here metaphorically -although the German gives no indication of this. (PJ 09.1998).
Subject (bmpixs)	basket food New Year sacrifice
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Heshuwan {place}
Coverage date	1904/1920
Photographer (bmpixn)	Maisch, Wilhelm Friedrich (Mr)
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1904/1920
Type	images
Format	b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver; 11.5 x 8.3 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m19920
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
Part of official series	China. Religion (but without ancestor veneration). 5.a. Religious personalities: Confucius, b. Market field and village deities, c. Triumphant arches, d. Temples, monasteries, pagodas.
Part of repository	mission 21 / Basel Mission
Reference number	A-30.55.011
Rights	All the images (photographic and non-photographic) made available in this collection are the property of the Basel Mission and are managed by mission 21. mission 21 / Basel Mission claim copyright on the images in their possession and require those publishing any of the images -- both individuals and organisations -- to pay a user's/copyright fee.
Access conditions	Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
Repository name	mission21
Repository address	mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+4161 260 23 09), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Repository email	info@bmpix.org
Filename	impa-abmpix-8841
Archival file	impa_Volume26/impa-abmpix-8841.tiff

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