KOPPELQUESTS - Photo Gallery 3/24/2004

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	Washing clothes in the canals that flow through the old city. There are specific times for drinking vs. washing.		Inside the courtyard of a typical home
The white color indicates that someone from this home has died within the past year	There are three specific areas with access to water. The first is for drinking, the second for washing food, and the last for washing clothes (going upstream to downstream)	The outside of a traditional home	A woman in traditional Naxi dress
Grandmother and granddaughter	Naxi writing consists entirely of pictographs (as opposed to Mandarin which is a combination of pictures and sounds). The stick figure with the yellow circle attached is the picture for the word "pregnant" (looks like a mother with unborn baby). The pic	Along one of Li Jiang's canals