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Saw this motorcycle during the 20th Anniversary of Rolling Thunder in Washington DC in 2007. Rolling Thunder National

This patch was on a vest worn by a rider in the 20th Anniversary Rolling Thunder ride in Washington, DC in 2007.

Photo taken at the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

The pictographic writing used by the Naxi people, known as the Dongba script, is one of the few pictographic sys- tems still in use. Consisting of more than 2,000 separate characters, Dongba pictography has been used primarily to record what is read or chanted at Dongba religious ritu – als. But the pictographs have also been used to document history and culture-creating a virtual encyclopaedia of the Naxi people. Dongba texts have been collected and preserved by many museums and libraries around th e world since the 1920s. An estimated 20,000 unique texts are said to exist.Because the pictograms are so distinctive,