<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Roof of mosque, Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu, China, 1936</dc:title><dc:creator>Pickens, Claude L., 1900-1985</dc:creator><dc:date>1936</dc:date><dc:description>Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.</dc:description><dc:description>The province of Ningsia has two distinct types of architecture among its many mosques.  Here is a good example of the curved roof minaret of one near Kinkihsien.  There is a much sharper curve to the roof here than one finds in Eastern China.</dc:description><dc:format>still image</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>