Illustrations
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"A Journey in Southern Siberia", by Jeremiah Curtin, [1909],
p. xiii
Illustrations
Portrait of the Author
"Frontispiece
Facing
Page
Irkutsk, Siberia
18
Post Station at Elantsin
24
Our Traveling Carriage while Making the Buriat Journey
24
Baggage and Provisions of Convicts
40
Convicts Passing through the Village of Usturdi
40
Group of Convicts Resting and Lunching
42
Buriat Wedding
42
People Assembled for the Horse Sacrifice
46
Stone Altars on the Hill of Sacrifice
48
I. Horse Sacrifice
50
Ii. Horse Sacrifice
50
Iii. Horse Sacrifice
52
Iv. Horse Sacrifice
52
V. Horse Sacrifice
54
Vi. Horse Sacrifice
54
Convict Prison at a Post Station
68
Buriat Women in Full Dress
68
House where we Boarded on Olkhon Island
72
The Only Russian Church in Olkhon
72
Arkokoff, his Wife, Son, and Son's Wife
80
Lazareff and his Relatives
80
Kongoroff and his Wife
84
Andrei Mihailovitch, Mikiloff and his Young Wife
84
Manshut
88
p. xiv
Facing
Page
Buriat Young Lady, Island of Olkhon
88
Ram, Sacrificed as an Offering
100
Bones of the Ram, Left to Rot and Fall
100
Tea from China, Coming from Kiakhta to the Railroad in Irkutsk
106
Buriat Watch Dog
106
Andrei Mihailovitch's Field Ongons
120
Field Ongons
124
Field Ongons, Church in which the Author Spent Three Days, and Group of Houses and Russian Store Mentioned on Page 72
128
Vassya, his Father, and the Author
142
Drying Fuel--Cow Droppings--Island of Olkhon
158
Church near a Post Station on the Road to Lake Baikal
158
Our Buriat Friends in the Sacred Island of Olkhon
176
Russian Exile and Two Buriat Shamans
194
The Author's Carriage
194
Village of Alaguersk-rod in Siberia
214
A Group of Unmarried Mongol Women or Young Ladies in Usturdi
214
Gods which Guard the House from the Outside, Olkhon Island
236
Buriat Gods, or Representations of their Gods
236
Buriat Household Gods
258
Contents of "God Bags"
258
Buriats--Husband and Wife in the Hayfield
282
Representations of Buriat Gods
282
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