Return
Objects

Photograph: Stopover.

Title:

Photograph: Stopover.

Territory:

Russian Empire, Kamchatka Oblast

Date:

1895-1898

Collectors-person:
Photographer:
Slyunin Nikolai V.
Dimensions:

11 x 16

Number:

РЭМ 5655-225

Annotation:

Members of the Okhotsk-Kamchatka mining expedition (1895-1898), with Dr. V. N. Slyunin among them, used teams of harness dogs as means of transport. They were driven by dog-drivers from among indigenous people who knew well the habits and features of nutrition of these animals. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva