IDNO

DG.121746.OLT

Description

Kazak with the hunting eagle; probably Xinjiang; Qazak with hunting eagle caption.”

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.5687.ACH1: “Kieri Kazak [sic Kazakh], in winter quarters not far east of Chucuchuk, with hooded hunting eagle.” [manuscript in ink]

On Manual Listing for P.5687.ACH1: “Kieri Kazakh in winter quarters east of Chuguchak.”

A Kieri Kazakh man with his hooded hunting eagle., from record P.5687.ACH1, JD 8/3/2013]

Place

E Asia; C Asia; China; Xinjiang; Miao’er Kou [Sinkiang; Miao'rh Kou; Miao-erh-ku]

Cultural Affliation

Kazakhs [historically Qazaqs; Kazak]

Named Person

Photographer

Lattimore, Owen

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1928 - 1938

Collection Name

Owen Lattimore Collection

Source

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard College, Massachusetts

Format

Digital File

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Source: Owen Lattimore bequeathed his original photographic collection to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, along with Intellectual Property Rights. As part of the bequest, a set of digital copies, “together with a non-exclusive license to use them for educational and scholarly purposes” was provided to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. [JD 3/3/2013]

Group: Kieri Kazakhs are a tribe of Kazakh nomads who inhabit Central Asia being found in Kazakhstan, Mongolia and the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in China. They were previously Nestorian Christians but converted to Sunni Islam. [Source: Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria, by Douglas Carruthers The Geographical Journal © 1912 The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), CA-D9/1/2007]