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Asset ID film146

Title Central Asiatic Expeditions: fauna

Date Free Text [1921-1930]

Agent (Role) Shackelford, James B. (Photographer)

Artwork/Object Type Video file

Country China, Mongolia

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Special Collections, Film Collection no. 146: Central Asiatic Expeditions: fauna, U-matic

Publication History Andrews, Roy Chapman. The New Conquest of Central Asia. New York, AMNH, 1932. (Natural History of Central Asia, v. 1).

Repository American Museum of Natural History

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Description Filmed during the AMNH Third Asiatic Expedition to China and Mongolia, 1921-1930. The expedition collected zoological specimens throughout Mongolia, but the main collecting was done in the Gobi Desert. This film shows some of the animals that were collected for scientific purposes, as well as those kept as pets. The animals collected includes swans, nightjars, ruddy shelducks, grebes, ducks, gazelles, wild asses, and jerboas. Next are seen the animals "kept" by members of the expedition: an ass colt; Connie, a young vulture found by Ralph W. Chaney, paleobotanist, which was finally brought to New York and given to the New York Zoological Society; a red-billed chough; juvenile owls and kites; a falcon; a juvenile gazelle; a hedgehog, James Barnes Shackelford's pet, that also was given to the New York Zoological Society; and the dog, Wolf, Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960's favorite. The final sequence was filmed at the expedition headquarters in Peking (now Beijing), where live crocodiles are seen and Wang Hao-Ting, a painter, displays his watercolors of fish and reptiles in the courtyard.

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External Resource AMNH Library authority record: Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930)

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