Daniel S. and Jane Balderston Dye papers, 1905-1987 (inclusive).

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Daniel S. and Jane Balderston Dye papers, 1905-1987 (inclusive).

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Material documents the social and political scene in the Chengtu area, as well as providing biographical information regarding the Dyes and a thorough account of their educational mission work at West China Union University. The papers include unique documentation of patterns and designs used in West China latticework, woven belts, and pottery. Drawings of hundreds of patterns and notes regarding their origins and symbolism are included.

8 linear feet (18 boxes)

Yake University Divinity School Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8014500

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Dye, Jane Balderston, 1886-1976.

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Dye, Daniel Sheets.

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Daniel Sheets Dye was born in Ohio and graduated from Denison University. He taught science courses at West China Union University in Chengtu from 1910 to 1949, serving under the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. As an avocation, Dye recorded and analysed window lattice and woven belt patterns, which often had swastika designs, throughout West China. Dye was a founder of the West China Border Research Society and of the West China Union University museum of Chinese culture. Jane Balde...