Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 38

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A sacred plant of the Uriyanghai Mongols (the several bushy plants with red stalks in foreground). They hang branches of this plant at the doors of their gers, saying they can prevent devils from coming into the ger.

Scanned from colour print held in the archives of the University of Cambridge MacArthur Project “Environmental and Cultural Conservation in Inner Asia”, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.

1993-05-28