IDNO

P.90962.LIN

Description

On Mamen’s listing: Barga, N.W. Manchuria, 1931.
Erection festival of Baying Khan Obo at Taban Tologoi.
72. Pony with Buriat saddle. 27/6.

These are Russian type of carts. Whips are hung from the horses. Hobble is seen on the white horse’s front legs. An old man is standing on the cart looking into the distance to the same direction with most of the other people looking at. The man standing on the left is wearing the Buryats’ unique raincoat called truba made of woolen cloth.

Place

E Asia; China; Inner Mongolia; Hulun Buir; Taban Tologoi; Bayan Khan Obo [North west Manchuria; Barga Region]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Mamen, Oscar

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

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 This list has now been archived as BA2/4/16. A printed slip of paper found from this album has also been archived as BA2/4/16.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A xexored manuscript describing the matching negatives for the prints in this album has also been archived as BA2/4/8.