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Description
Photograph from Dimen Village of detail of a man's hand holding a line making instrument in his hand. He has extended its string along the length of the beam and pushes the string down on the mark where the line is supposed to end. The string is coated in powdered ink and makes a dark mark on 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, "Line making instrument for woodworking" (2010). All Photographs. 2232.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2232
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photograph, Crafts, Other crafts, Men's crafts, Dimen Village, Work
