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Description: "An offering to the Gods, Peking [China]." Photograph taken by Herbert Ponting (1870-1935).

Date: c.1907

Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/507/186

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Source Offering to the Gods
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Herbert Ponting  (1870–1935)  wikidata:Q127805
 
Herbert Ponting
Alternative names
Herbert G. Ponting; Herbert George Ponting; Herbert G. Pointing; H. G. Ponting
Description British explorer, photographer, cinematographer, film director and director
Date of birth/death 21 March 1870 Edit this at Wikidata 7 February 1935 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Salisbury London
Work period 1910 Edit this at Wikidata
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Asia; Antarctica Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q127805


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