IDNO

D.78672.LIN

Description

Watercolour painting and ink drawing of a Buryat woman's long coat collected by Ethel Lindgren during her Northwest Manchuria expedition, 1931 - 1932.
The coat is now in the care of MAA, reference 1933.363 A, and described as: "A long coat [A] with waistcoat [B - not illustrated]. The front of the coat is made from purple silk with multicoloured floral brocade, with a trim of black velvet; the waist has striped band of black, red and gold; the sleeves are made from green silk brocade with purple patterned cuffs, and there appears to be wool wadding in the layers of the sleeves. The back of the coat is made from plain blue silk and cotton.
Catalogue card for 1933.363 [A-B]: 'Woman's coat - festive attire.'
Asia; East Asia; China; Inner Mongolia
Buryat; Transbaikal Buriat [historic]
According to the catalogue card for 1933.358, '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 River), southeast of Hailar.
The garments in this collection (No's. 1933.358-66) 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 northwest of the Russo-Chinese frontier, on the Western Line of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The river Onon-Borzya runs through it.
The style of dress 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" Buriat women, and probably those of other sections of Transbaikal, have certain peculiarities in dress.'
Note by Lindgren on catalogue card for 1933.363 [A-B]: 'Sewn by Transbaikal Buriat woman, 1932. (v. Nos. 33.358, 33.359, 33.360).'"

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/.