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Identifier: generalguide45amer (find matches)
Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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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

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