Early Spring in Handgate
subject: Handgate centre
A stone house on the route between the winter camp and the spring camp, Handgate
subject: pastoralism
Handgate Hsiang Centre
A Kazakh ‘knowledgeable old man’, Hsaing Centre, Handgate
Dr. Marsel’s herbs and materia medica for making medicines
subject: medicine
The lama, and the trees he planted
subject: Buddhism
Surgical operating room, Handgate Hospital
An Uriyanghai woman, centre of Handgate
A sacred plant of the Uriyanghai Mongols (the several bushy plants with red stalks in foreground).
subject: natural sacred sites
Dund-bulag, Handgate. Spring pasture, with some damage.
Pack camels at the camel festival.
subject: camels
Racing camels.
Kiosk selling camel milk products.
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.
Wire fencing to enclose household pasture.
Camels being transported to a race in the back of a truck.
Herders at the camel gelding ritual.
A woman selling stones collected from the desert, laid out on a sheet and in boxes on the ground.
Blessing a camel (myalaakh) prior to a race.
At a camel race.
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.
Display of buil.