On board an Antung trader type junk under sail at Weihaiwei. The photographer is looking at the lower corner of either the foresail or the mainsail showing the multitude of patches sewn in to the sail, the bamboo battens, the main end rope and the sheets. The photographer was at Weihaiwei in the periods 3 June to 21 July 1937, 14 to 17 August 1937, 6 September to 7 October 1937, 8 June to 12 August 1938 and 20 August to 4 September 1938.