(The following is a post by Yuwu Song, Chinese Reference Specialist, Asian Division.)
The “Ke meng gu yang Miao tu” 克孟牯羊苗圖 (“Illustrated album of the Kemeng Guyang Miao people”), now included in the Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection, likely dates back to the era of the Qianlong Emperor (1735-1796) of the Qing Dynasty. This work belongs to a distinct ethnographic genre of illust