TITLE:
Study on He Hong’s Dongba Manuscripts Collected by American Harvard-Yenching Library
AUTHORS:
Xiaoliang Li
KEYWORDS:
Harvard-Yenching Library; He Hong; Dongba Manuscripts
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Anthropology,
Vol.4 No.1,
January
27,
2014
ABSTRACT: American Harvard-Yenching
Library has uploaded its Dongba manuscripts of Naxi on the official website. Most
of the Dongba manuscripts collection is featured with older version, good
appearance, fluent and elegant writing, and the portraits are true to life. Therefore,
Harvard Dongba manuscripts collections are definitely rare collections. Some of
these manuscripts were written by He Hong, who was one of well-known Dongba,
native Naxi priests, in Baisha, Lijiang. This paper focuses on several aspects
of the title pages, writing style, postscript of He Hong’s manuscripts in order
that we can understand the characteristic of the Dongba manuscripts of Baisha.