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Photograph: Transportation of mammoth bone. Yakuts

Title:

Photograph: Transportation of mammoth bone

Ethnic groups:

Yakuts

Territory:

Yakutskaya Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Date:

1932

Collectors:

Dimensions:

11,5 x 16,5

Number:

РЭМ 5411-38

Annotation:

The Yakuts and Dolgans used mammoth tusks found in permafrost for making utensils, various parts for sleds, deer harness, and lassos. They were an important item of barter at Siberian fairs. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva