General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . WANG MU, THE CHINESE QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES. This is a carved ivory figurefrom the Drummond Collection. Though pro-duced by a Japanese artist, it is founded upon aChinese myth. It is said that the palace of Wang\lu is in the Juen-lun .Mountains, where sheguards the Tree of Immortal Peaches that growsbeside the Lake of Gems, whose fruit ripens uponher birthday, every 3000 vears. Here gather tothe Feast of Peaches all the immortals to renewtheir immortality by eating the celestial fruit r. 164:1 k WAN YIN, GODDESS OF
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . WANG MU, THE CHINESE QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES. This is a carved ivory figurefrom the Drummond Collection. Though pro-duced by a Japanese artist, it is founded upon aChinese myth. It is said that the palace of Wang\lu is in the Juen-lun .Mountains, where sheguards the Tree of Immortal Peaches that growsbeside the Lake of Gems, whose fruit ripens uponher birthday, every 3000 vears. Here gather tothe Feast of Peaches all the immortals to renewtheir immortality by eating the celestial fruit r. 164:1 k WAN YIN, GODDESS OF THE FISH. Acarved ivorv Japanese figure of great beaut)from the Drummond Collection. This ivorjstatuette is characteristically Japanese both irconception and rendering. It immortalizes irivory the story of the princely fisherman \vh<set up a shrine to this goddess after he hatrepeatedlv found her image in his net instea<of the fish he sought. CHINESE BRONZES. A set of three bronze ornaments inlaid with silver from the Sung Dynasty,960-1279 A. D. To the right is a bronze libation cup, probably used in religious ceremonies, from the Shang Dynasty, 1766-1122 B. C. Hall on the third floor (Index Plan, p. 18,Third Floor, Hall 6), where are installedcollections from eastern and northern illustrating the culture, industries,religion and manufacture of China are on theleft. Others, showing the mode of life, thecostumes, and the war implements of Siberia,are on the right. The fur-work, costumes, and rugs of thepeople of eastern Siberia reveal remarkableskill in workmanship. Two models showrespectively summer and winter scenes inSiberia. In the rear are collections from Japan, the Ainu and the Amur River tribesnoted for decorated fabrics and picturesquecostumes. The collections on the left side of the halldeal mainlv with the everyday life of themodern Chinese and have a special value, asthev were made just before the
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