IDNO

P.90997.LIN

Description

On Mamen’s listing: During Shaman performance at Omul Ail, Barga, Manchuria 1931.
7. Shaman Yurt and the string leading to the willow, near East Omul Ail. 7/7.

“Three willow trees are carried away, two of which had stood inside her tent, joined by a rope to the one outside.” After the ceremony “the three willows brought out longside of the three birches from Old, dead Shamans performance” [Lindgren’s description of the film].
This should be the “toroo” tree described in the “Shamans and elders” (Humphrey and Onon 1996: 240).

Place

E Asia; China; Inner Mongolia; Hulun Buir; Evenki Banner; Omul Ail; Nantun [North west Manchuria; Barga Region]

Cultural Affliation

Daur [historically Dagur]

Named Person

Photographer

Mamen, Oscar

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

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 This list has now been archived as BA2/4/16. A printed slip of paper found from this album has also been archived as BA2/4/16.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A xexored manuscript describing the matching negatives for the prints in this album has also been archived as BA2/4/8.