Selections from the Naxi manuscript collection

The outer archives are busy

by Baotian Zhu, Joseph Francis Charles Rock, Quentin Roosevelt

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The Naxi use a unique pictographic writing system that is similar to the ancient Egyptian and Mayan writing systems. It is the only living pictographic language in the world today, featuring 185 manuscripts, a 39 1/2-foot funerary scroll and an annotated catalog of the entire collection: Annotated catalog of Naxi pictographic manuscripts.

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