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The Cowrie Shell Miao of KweichowBook 1947 • Mickey, Margaret Portia
Miao • Asia > East Asia
This document is a general ethnography of the Cowrie Shell Miao village of Yang-chia-sai in Lung-li hsien, Ting-shui-pa valley, south central Kweichow. The author describes ceremonial and ritual practices more fully than social structure ('Institutio...