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]
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