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Headline Ivory Carving, “The Chengtu-Kunming Railway”

Caption Description A view of a detail of the ivory carving of the “Chengtu-Kunming Railway”, a gift to the United Nations from the People's Republic of China. The ivory caving was carved on eight ivory tusks, which together weight more than 300 kilogrammes. The finished piece is 150 cm in length, 110 cm. in height and weighs more than 150 kilogrammes. The Chengtu-Kunming Railway was opened to traffic on 1 July 1970. It runs from Chengtu, Szechuan Province, in the north, to Kunming, Yunnan Province, in the south and covers a distance of 1,085 kilometres. With the iron-chained suspension bridge on the Tatu River, over which the Chinese Red Arm made a forced crossing during the Long March, as the background, this ivory carving presents in the centre the Tatu River steel bridge, which is typical of the many bridges built along this line, and uses it as the link to make the composition an integral whole. The main portion of the piece consists of two huge peaks connected by the railway bridge and the myriad mountains and rivers through which the railway passes.

Unique Identifier UN7599281

NICA ID 251254

Production Date 09/14/1977 11:34:47 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata