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The Emergence of the Bird in Andean Paracas Art. c. 900 BCE - 200 CE
… activities. The art works feature figural imagery based, to a great extent, on the numerous species of sea, air, and land fauna of the south coastal area. In fact, avian imagery and costumes, generally understood to represent humans impersonating supernaturals, dominate in Paracas …
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The Significance of Birds in Early Chinese Poetry
This thesis looks at the use of avian imagery across a wide range of early Chinese poetry: the Shijing, the Chu ci, works from the Yuefu 樂府 (Music Bureau collection) and its related anthologies – Zuo Keming’s 左克明 (fl. 14th cent.), Gu Yuefu 古樂府 (‘Ancient Music Bureau collection’), Guo Maoqian’s 郭茂倩 …