06 Jun 2004

Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection
Asian Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA
Self-description: "Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection features ceremonial writings of the Naxi people of Yunnan Province, China. The Library of Congress's Naxi collection is the largest outside of China [containing 3,342 manuscripts - hl] and is considered one of the finest in the world. The Naxi use a unique pictographic writing system that is similar to the ancient Egyptian and Mayan writing systems. It is the only living pictographic language in the world today. This online presentation features 185 manuscripts, a 39.5 foot funerary scroll and an annotated catalog of the entire collection."
Supplied note: "The items carry bibliographic description and are presented as thumbnail, low resolution JPEG, high resolution JPEG and high quality TIFF. Information about how to view the TIFF files on various platforms is available - hl."
Site contents: (1) Search by keyword; (2) Browse by titles; (3) Browse by subjects; (4) Annotated Catalog of Naxi Pictographic Manuscripts; (5) Joseph Rock [1884-1962, an Austrian-born naturalized American explorer who acquired most of the manuscripts during the 1920ies and 30ies]; (6) Quentin Roosevelt II [contributed another large part of the collection]; (7) About the collection; (8) Selected bibliography; (9) How to view; (10) Building the digital collection; (11) Copyright and other restrictions; (12) Acknowledgements.
URL http://international.loc.gov/intldl/naxihtml/naxihome.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
As of 06 Jun 2004, this site was not (yet) available at the Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/)
Link reported by: Laura Gottesman via Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30