IDNO

P.90929.LIN

Description

On Mamen’s listing for N.21322.LIN: "Baying Hosho (Solon) Obo festival.
Barga, N.W. Manchuria, 1931.
38. The Amban and group approaching the Obo. 22/6."

“The officials are wearing official court dress of the Manchu dynasty, ignoring the revolution of 1911.” [U. Borjigin, 20/5/2002]

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

Amban Gui Fu

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 This list has now been archived as BA2/4/16. A printed slip of paper found from this album has also been archived as BA2/4/16.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A xexored manuscript describing the matching negatives for the prints in this album has also been archived as BA2/4/8.