Portable raft made of goat skins, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, 1936Pickens, Claude L., 1900-19851936A portable goat skin raft which is used in the water down stream and carried on the back of a man upstream. Many such small rafts are fastened together to make one of the hundred skins or more to transport large cargo or a number of people to cities down the Yellow River.Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.still image