Were they heading North or South?................
Vintage images of Evenk and Kahnt peoples photographed in 1909 from the book Journey to Other Worlds
This information was once upon a time on the net, now one has to buy the book...another one to add to my library:
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Other-Worlds-Collections-Ethnography/dp/B001USL0RI
This is a catalog of a joint exhibition by the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, and the Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia held at the Illinois State Museum (Oct-Dec 1997) and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Jan-Mar 1998). Includes bibliographic references. Essays and object descriptions translated from Russian to English by Tatyana Platonova. Foreword by R. Bruce McMillan and Igor Dubov. Introduction to the Journey by B. W. Styles and T. J. Martin. Reindeer hunters of Siberia by V. Gorbacheva. Shamanism among the poeples of western and eastern Siberia by Karina Solovyova. Shamanic healing rituals by Tatyana Sem. Contemporary cultures of Siberia and the Far East by V. Gorbacheva. 101 pages, ill. (some color), map; 23 x 31 cm.
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Found it fascinating - the people and their culture as photographed in the very early 19 hundreds were so much like the Native Americans...
