IDNO

P.91222.LIN

Description

On Mamen's listing: Trip to the Upper Imen, Barga, N. Manchuria, 1932.
26. 17/3. From the Shamaness Saimä’s performance over the sick woman Nienkor. At the Solon camp at Sangrintu on the Upper Imen.

Place

E Asia; China; Inner Mongolia; Hulun Buir; Evenki Banner; upper Imin River; Songintu [North west Manchuria; Barga Region; upper Imen River]

Cultural Affliation

Solon

Named Person

Nienkor; Saimä

Photographer

Mamen, Oscar

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

17 March 1932

Collection Name

Lindgren Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.91197.LIN to P.91440.LIN, P.81797.LIN to P.81890.LIN, P.62142.LIN, P.62143.LIN, P.62482.LIN, P.84684.LIN are in the album now numbered A.114.LIN. The prints match the negatives in A.10.LIN, A.11.LIN, A.20.LIN, A.21.LIN, A.23.LIN, A.24.LIN, A.6.LIN, A.18.LIN. A typed list describing the negatives for the prints in this album was found in this album which has now been archived as BA2/4/16.
A xeroxed manuscript describing the negatives for the prints in is archived as BA2/4/8.

Publication: Image published in Humphrey, C., & Onon, U. (1996). Shamans and elders : Experience, knowledge and power among the Daur Mongols / Caroline Humphrey with Urgunge Onon. (Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology). Oxford: Clarendon Press', p.32, fig.4 and captioned: "Saime Shaman, a Solon, conducting a ritual by the banks of the frozen Imen River to the south of Hailar in the Barga region. Photo: 1932, O. Mamen. [1.3]." [JD 18/08/2017]