IDNO

P.93659.LIN

Description

On Mamen's listing: The Ganjur Fair, Barga 1931.
5. Fire-grate trader. 13/9.

Mamen’s description: “Fire-grate trader at Ganjur fair”.

It is called tulga in Mongolian that had been used popularly among all the Mongols before the iron stoves with pipes spread from the Shinehen Buryats who brought them from Russia. The trader obviously is a Chinese. This is an example again of that Chinese usually made the things they never use. [U. Borjigin, 24/6/2002]

Place

E Asia; China; Inner Mongolia; Hulunbuir; New Barga East Banner; Ganjur Hua; Ganjur Sume [North west Manchuria; Barga Region]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Mamen, Oscar

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

13 September 1931

Collection Name

Lindgren Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.93557.LIN to P.93994.LIN are in the album now numbered A.115.LIN. The prints match negatives from A.25.LIN, A.26.LIN, A.27.LIN, A.28.LIN. A typed list describing these negatives was found inside this album. It has now been archived as BA2/4/16.