Camels being transported to a race in the back of a truck.
subject: camels
Wire fencing to enclose household pasture.
A giant buil – the wooden peg inserted through the nose of a camel and used for attaching reins or tethers – on display at the camel festival.
Kiosk selling camel milk products.
Racing camels.
Pack camels at the camel festival.
Dund-bulag, Handgate. Spring pasture, with some damage.
subject: pastoralism
A sacred plant of the Uriyanghai Mongols (the several bushy plants with red stalks in foreground).
subject: natural sacred sites
An Uriyanghai woman, centre of Handgate
subject: Handgate centre
Surgical operating room, Handgate Hospital
subject: medicine
The lama, and the trees he planted
subject: Buddhism
Dr. Marsel’s herbs and materia medica for making medicines
A Kazakh ‘knowledgeable old man’, Hsaing Centre, Handgate
Handgate Hsiang Centre
A stone house on the route between the winter camp and the spring camp, Handgate
Early Spring in Handgate
A visit to an Uriyanghai household
Lama’s grandchildren, praying or playing. Handgate temple
List of photographs taken and submitted by Tsui Yen Hu.
Dr. Dimulati Omar doing Tibetan yoga at Five-Finger Spring
A scene at the Handgate centre
Children at Handgate Centre
Dr. Marsel, an Uriyanghai traditional medical specialist, showing us some of the herbs and powders he uses
Handgate cinema