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thousand and more drawings are engrave on the stone faces
on both sides of a 600-meter-long stretch of a ravine
in Helan Pass o the eastern slope of the Helan Mountain
some 50 kilometers from downtown Yinchuan. Most of these
engravings are in the images of human heads, and the others
are renditions of cattle, horses, goats, donkeys, deer,
birds, wolves and other animals, as well as the sun, the
moon, stars, and human limbs. Some of the pictures depict
scenes of hunting and sacrificial rituals. These works
of art form a veritable treasure-house of ethnic art,
furnishing precious materials for the study of the history,
culture, economy and religious beliefs of the northern
nomads of ancient times.
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