Image type index
Motorcycle at camel race
White, Thomas
Herder on motorcycle at a camel race. In the background is a new apartment complex being constructed, which will become home to pastoralists who have moved off the land.
subject: camels
Stone merchant
White, Thomas
A woman selling stones collected from the desert, laid out on a sheet and in boxes on the ground.
subject: camels
Camel transportation
White, Thomas
Camels being transported to a race in the back of a truck.
subject: camels
Inner Mongolia pasture fence
White, Thomas
Wire fencing to enclose household pasture.
subject: camels
Giant buil
White, Thomas
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.
subject: camels
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 44
Tsui Yen Hu
Dund-bulag, Handgate. Spring pasture, with some damage.
subject: pastoralism
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 38
Tsui Yen Hu
A sacred plant of the Uriyanghai Mongols (the several bushy plants with red stalks in foreground).
subject: natural sacred sites
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 16
Tsui Yen Hu
An Uriyanghai woman, centre of Handgate
subject: Handgate centre
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 28
Tsui Yen Hu
Surgical operating room, Handgate Hospital
subject: medicine
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 18
Tsui Yen Hu
The lama, and the trees he planted
subject: Buddhism
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 30
Tsui Yen Hu
Dr. Marsel’s herbs and materia medica for making medicines
subject: medicine
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 08
Tsui Yen Hu
A Kazakh ‘knowledgeable old man’, Hsaing Centre, Handgate
subject: Handgate centre
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 05
Tsui Yen Hu
Handgate Hsiang Centre
subject: Handgate centre
Photograph of Handgate, Xinjiang by Tsui Yen Hu, 1993, No. 47
Tsui Yen Hu
A stone house on the route between the winter camp and the spring camp, Handgate
subject: pastoralism