Handwritten under image: Mongolian goat herder with gun  PH Coll 214.F32
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The clothes and equipment in this picture don't even remotely resemble any of the well known Mongolian styles, which casts some doubts on the original designation.
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Chandless seems to have indiscriminately labelled any grasslands north of Beijing as "Mongolia". Other Pictures labeled "Mongolia" in the same collection have apparently been made on a trip between Beijing and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengde" class="extiw" title="en:Chengde">Jehol</a>. This makes it likely that the one here has also been taken in what is today <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebei" class="extiw" title="en:Hebei">Hebei Province</a>, far from any Mongol population or cultural influence.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48598873" class="extiw" title="d:Q48598873"><span title="American businessman and photographer">Robert Henry Chandless</span></a>
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