The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China

The Ancient Na khi Kingdom of Southwest China, Joseph F. Rock's 1947 two volume ethnographic and historical study from Harvard University Press, Harvard Yenching Institute Monograph Series volumes 8 and 9, confirmed against multiple independent bibliographic listings agreeing on publisher, series and year, remains the base of subsequent Naxi studies by the botanist explorer who conducted the underlying fieldwork. Its strength is that it is still considered foundational to the field. Its limit is that this record's citation of the work for the mountain warrior god Sanduo's epithet as creator of the universe rests on a peer reviewed secondary source quoting Rock by page, since the lending restricted digital copy was not read directly; that same secondary source reports Sanduo's status as ambiguous even in modern scholarship, so treat this as attesting the epithet rather than settling a mortal origin narrative until the primary text itself can be read directly.