Yakut offerings, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic
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Yakut offerings, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic
The Yakuts traditionally hang pieces of cloth and horsehair on the branches of a tree when passing between two regions, as an offering for a safe onward passage.
Motherland
November 2004
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 22.8 x 18.1 cm
Overall: 25.3 x 20.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0057
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 132 +3 +0 +0 +0 132.tif (1) 10:23:42
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 132 +3 +0 +0 +0 132.tif (1) 10:23:42
