IDNO

P.90926.LIN

Description

On Mamen’s listing for N.21319.LIN: "Baying Hosho (Solon) Obo festival.
Barga, N.W. Manchuria, 1931.
35. Ditto [The Solon Obo in detail]. 22/6."

The sacrificial offerings are placed in the Dagur car (wooden cart), and they then take off the 'kurt' (wooden wheels) once at the site. You can see the 'Adale' (wheel carrier) now placed on the ground by the obo.
In the past, Dagur people described the depth of rivers by saying 'Adale-in-Aolesen', meaning the river reaches half of someone's body. [Dagur language]
[Information by Huijun Meng, his 85 year old grandmother and her friend, Dambu, former Director of Huhhot Steel Factory and 80 years old, JD 15/5/2015]

Place

E Asia; China; Inner Mongolia; Hulun Buir; Hailar; Solon Obo; Baying Hoshu Obo [North west Manchuria; Barga]

Cultural Affliation

Solon; Daur [historically Dagur]; Buryat [historically Buriat]

Named Person

Photographer

Mamen, Oscar

Collector / Expedition

Lindgren, Ethel John [Expedition to Northwest Manchuria, 1931]

Date

22 June 1931

Collection Name

Lindgren Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.90920.LIN to P.91196.LIN and P.65858.LIN to P.65861.LIN are in the album now numbered A.113.LIN. The prints correspond to negatives from A.7.LIN, A.8.LIN, A.9.LIN, A.27.LIN, and a typed list describing the negatives for the prints in this album was found in this album. This list has now been archived as BA2/4/16. A printed slip of paper found from this album has also been archived as BA2/4/16. It reads: “Visitors may accompany the herdsman on his daily check of Britain’s only Herd of Reindeer. Departure at 11a.m from REINDEER HOUSE, a stone building above the Ski Road, just beyond the Glenmore Camp site, near Aviemore, Inverness-shire.
Adults 50p Children 30p
M. N. P. UTSI
Managing Director
Reindeer Company Ltd
Telephone: Cairngorm 228” [printed text]

A xexored manuscript describing the matching negatives for the prints in this album has also been archived as BA2/4/8.