IDNO

D.78668.LIN

Description

Watercolour painting of one of a pair of a Buryat gotol (long leather boots) collected by Ethel Lindgren during her Northwest Manchuria expedition, 1931 - 1932.
The gotol are now in the care of MAA, reference 1933.358 A-B, and described as: "Pair of black leather boots with thick composite sole. Lined with blue cloth, with a band around the top of the opening; brown leather piping along seams and geometric embroidery at the heel; green and red braided cord around top of sole which consists of layers of leather and cloth; bottom of sole is concave.
Inner Mongolia [Manchuria]; Barga Region; Imin River; Imen River; Shinke River
Buryat; Transbaikal Buriat [historic]
Note by Lindgren on catalogue card for 1933.358 A-B: 'THE TRANSBAIKAL BURIATS IN BARGA: Since 1921, several hundred families of Transbaikal Buriats have emigrated from Siberia to Barga (N. W. Manchuria), where the authorities assigned them the valley of the Shinke River (a right-hand tributary of the Imin R.), south-east of Hailar.
The garments in this collection (Nos. 33-358-.366) were ordered through a Russian trader living among the Transbaikal Buriats in Barga, and made by a woman of the tribe. The materials were bought by the Russian trader in Chinese and Russian shops in Hailar, according to her instructions (this is the usual procedure, as the Buriats seldom have time to go to town themselves). This woman belonged to the group of Transbaikal Buriats living (before emigration) in or near St. Borzya (Aginskaya Duma), the sixth station north-west of the Russo-Chinese frontier, on the Wester Line of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The river Onon-Borzya runs through it.
The style of dress shown in this collection may therefore be said to be that of the 'Aginsk' Buriats of Transbaikal. Buriats from this region use this territorial designation for themselves. 'Selenginsk' Buriak women, and probably those of other sections of Transbaikal, have certain peculiarities in dress."

Place

E Asia; China; Inner Mongolia; Hulun Buir; near Hailar [North west Manchuria; Barga Region]

Cultural Affliation

Buryat; Transbaikal Buriat [historic]

Named Person

Photographer

King, Edith [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

Lindgren, Ethel John

Date

1932

Collection Name

Lindgren Collection

Source

Format

Drawing

Primary Documentation

Other Information

D.78666.LIN to D.78674.LIN were found in envelope now numbered C366/4/ which came from folder now numbered C366/.