IDNO

P.84853.LIN

Description

Place

N Asia; Arctic; Russia; Siberia [USSR]

Cultural Affliation

Evenki [historically Tungus]; ?Soyot

Named Person

Photographer

Petri, Bernhard Eduardovich (Professor)

Collector / Expedition

Lindgren, Ethel John

Date

1931

Collection Name

Lindgren Collection

Source

Lindgren, John Roe

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.84843.LIN to P.84853.LIN were found in an envelope now numbered C55/41/which came from the box now numbered C55/.

Biographical Information: Bernhard Eduardovich Petri, (1884-1937) Professor of ethnology at Irkutsk University, member of the British Anthropological Society, the USSR State Academy of the History of Material Culture, and full member of the American Anthropological Association undertook research with the indigenous peoples of Siberia. In 1926 Petri led the first anthropological expedition into the Soyot reindeer-herding region. Petri described a difficult period in Russian history claiming that Soyot reindeer herding was a "dying branch of the economy." "After the civil war, Petri was involved in "planning changes in the economic lives of minority peoples of the greater Altai-Sayan and Buryatia regions, including the nomadic reindeer-breeding Tungus (Evenki) and the Soyot and Tofalar."[8] He was wrongfully accused of "espionage for the British and German intelligence services, and of anti-Soviet activity, specifically establishing contacts with nationalistic representatives of the Buryat people, so-called Pan-Mongols" and executed in Irkutsk in 1937. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyot, JD 13/8/2015]