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Description
Photograph from Dimen Village of a man using a traditional tool to draw a straight line along the length of a wooden beam he is working on. A string covered powdered ink extends from the tool as the man attaches it to the end of the beam and pulls to transfer the ink to the wood.
Date Created
2010-07-14
Format
Photograph
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photograph, Crafts, Other crafts, Men's crafts, Dimen Village, Work
Location
Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China
Acknowledgements
Funding Provided by University of the Pacific
Rights Holder
Marie Anna Lee, c. 2019
Rights Management
All images and videos provided in the Kam Minority Archive by Marie Anna Lee on University of the Pacific's Scholarly Commons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Marie Anna, "Drawing a straight line with an instrument" (2010). All Photographs. 2220.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2220
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photograph, Crafts, Other crafts, Men's crafts, Dimen Village, Work
