MS 7422 Paintings of mythological figures
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7422

USNM Accession 50926

USNM Catalog 256980
name: label: Creator
content: Xu Hui Qin
place: label: Place
content: East Asia
label: Place
content: Huzhou Shi (China)
topic: label: Topic
content: Mythology
creator: label: Creator
content: Xu Hui Qin
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: MS 7422 Paintings of mythological figures
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Paintings (visual works) (24 x 45 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1908-1909
container: label: Container
content: Folder 7422
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The collection was donated to the United States National Museum by Dr. Claude Herman Barlow on December 13, 1909.  It was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in August 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7422
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Paintings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Paintings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of three (3) paintings on thin paper collected by Claude Herman Barlow in Huzhou, China in 1909.  The paintings depict mythological figures, including a dragon, a fish, and a man, and are signed by the artist, Xu Hui Qin.  Each painting has been marked in pencil with an explanation in English of the figure.

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