Joseph Rock
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Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American botanist, explorer, geographer, linguist, ethnographer and photographer.
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Photo from Rock's book The ornamental trees of Hawaii (1917)
Nakhi people
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The Nakhi, Nashi, or Naxi are a people inhabiting the Hengduan Mountains abutting the Eastern Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Provinc
Joseph Rock
…success led to further expeditions in southwest China, and in 1922 Rock first arrived in Lijiang in the northwest of Yunnan province, the center of the Nakhi (Naxi) people. The valley of Lijiang is dominated by the Yulong range, at whose foot Rock established a residence in the village of Nguluko. This would…
Nakhi people in a staged basket-carrying performance
Lijiang old town at night
A Lijiang street at night
Nakhi dongjing musicians in Lijiang