IDNO

P.91021.LIN

Description

On Mamen’s listing: Barga, N. Manchuria 1931.
Hailar River, Obo.
31. Cutting up the meat of a bull at the Hailar River Obo. 8/7.

On Mamen’s listing: “Cutting up the meat of a bull at the Hailar river oboo.” This is a small obo made of willow beside the river with no special alter and the offerings are laid in the foreground. However the Hulun Buir Amban attended the offering ritual seen from the context photos. Hailar river flows over the north of Hailar city from east to west. Imin River runs through Hailar from south to north to joins the Hailar river in the north of Hailar and southern foot of the Hailar oboo hill. Like Imin river is important to the Solon Banners, the Hailar river is important to Barga Banners. It seems from the only a few photos that Lindgren and Mamen did not attended the whole process of the ritual. [U. Borjigin 9/20/2002]

Place

E Asia; China; Inner Mongolia; Hulun Buir; Hailar River [North west Manchuria; Barga]

Cultural Affliation

Daur [historically Dagur] Mongol

Named Person

Photographer

Mamen, Oscar

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

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 This list has now been archived as BA2/4/16. A printed slip of paper found from this album has also been archived as BA2/4/16.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A xexored manuscript describing the matching negatives for the prints in this album has also been archived as BA2/4/8.