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| The Naxi or Nakhi are one of the many non-Chinese-speaking ethnic groups who live in China’s mountainous Yunnan province. They retain a writing system that is unique in the world: a pictographic script based on names and sounds in their Tibeto-Burmese language. This particular manuscript on bark, apparently a divination manual, was given to Berthold Laufer by Joseph F. Rock, a noted American explorer of the Himalayas.
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