IDNO

P.91162.LIN

Description

On Mamen's listing: Trip through the Olet country, Barga, Manchuria. 1932.
74. Jiremit Hawang and household at Bilute. 10/3.

Mamen’s description: “Group, Jiremit Hawang and household at Bilute.”

All except one woman are wearing hats. All the women including the little girl have no belt. Old men and women are holding pipes which show the status of senior person and has a sense of ornaments. Some pipes with silver bowels and jade mouth that cost the whole ox or more in old days. The first young man at the left has a bag called habtaga hung from his belt which usually contain snuff bottle and fire stone and steel. The two young children are wearing protective talisman which usually given by Lamas. [U. Borjigin 27/5/2002]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Ölet

Named Person

Jiremit Hawang

Photographer

Mamen, Oscar

Collector / Expedition

Lindgren, Ethel John [Expedition to Northwest Manchuria, 1932]

Date

10 March 1932

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 This list has now been archived as BA2/4/16. A printed slip of paper found from this album has also been archived as BA2/4/16.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A xexored manuscript describing the matching negatives for the prints in this album has also been archived as BA2/4/8.