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Photograph: Loaded baat. Russians

Title:

Photograph: Loaded baat.

Ethnic groups:

Russians

Date:

1912

Collectors-person:
Sokolnikov Nikolai P.
Photographer:
Dimensions:

11,6 x 16,8

Number:

РЭМ 4951-14

Annotation:

Wooden boats, or baats, were a most important means of traveling in the exploration of Siberia by Russian pathbreakers. As a means of cargo transportation, the baat with some exterior modifications has been retained in Chukotka by population of mixed origin. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva