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A Journey in Southern Siberia: Illustrations

A Journey in Southern Siberia, by Jeremiah Curtin, [1909] | 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 |