This Qing-dynasty (1644-1911) print shows the nine-headed phoenix; a being from Chinese mythology with a bird's body and nine heads with human faces. It is one of several hybrid creatures mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhai jing); where it is said to dwell in the Great Wilds to the North at the mountain called Celestial-Coffer-at-the-Northern-Extremity. This entry is in what may be the most recent section of this work; which may have been composed at any time between the third or fourth century B.C. and the third or fourth century CE.