VASYUGANIA

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VASYUGANIA

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Title: Portraits of Khants and Selkups from "The Land of Vasyugania" project.

Description: Portraits of Khants and Selkups from "The Land of Vasyugania" project.Photo 1: Semen Vilkin. Khant. In his ninth decade, he is a long-liver among the male population of indigenous people. The males of Khant, Selkup, and Ket peoples rarely live up to such a considerate age. Parabel. Tomsk region. Russia. 2008.Photo 2: Ivan Yegorovich and his wife Nina. The Selkups. Novoseltsevo. Tomsk region. Russia. 2008.Photo 3: Victoria Freund. Selkup by mother and German by father. Activist of the "Kolta Koop", - an association of native people of the north of Tomsk region. Novoseltsevo. Tomsk region. Russia. 2008.Photo 4: Vasiliy Saispaev. Selkup. He was a representative of the large Saispaevâ€™s Selkup family. Vasiliy lived in Nelmach village all his life. Nelmach. Tomsk region. Russia. 2008.Photo 5: The locals. Dalniy Yar. Tomsk region. Russia. 2009.Photo 6: Augusta Sinarbina. Khant. One of the last residents of Aypolovo village. She rarely leaves her house. Augusta is deaf by birth and has a congenital defect in the jaw. For centuries Aypolovo village had been one of the major places of Khant people compact residence. The Khant sacred rite places were located near the village. In the 80th of the last century, this village counted about 200 yards. It had itâ€™s own shop, club, power station. Now the village is completely derelict with only a few people remaining. There is no electricity. Aypolovo. Tomsk region. Russia. 2009.Photo 7: Nadia Tupova. One of the last inhabitants of Aypolovo village pictured at the Khant people sacred rites spot. Her parents plan to move to a new location with Nadia and her brother. The boy is at his school age and parents have no opportunity to take him every day to the nearest school 50 km away from the village by boat. Aypolovo. Tomsk region. Russia. 2009.Photo 8: Peter M. Milimov. Khunt. He is probably the last native speaker of the Eastern Khant language (the most rare and ancient Vasyugan dialect), as well as one of the few remaining experts in the traditions and culture of Vasyugan Khants. Natural born fisherman and hunter. Noviy Vasyugan. Tomsk region. Russia. 2009.Photo 9: Ilya. The grandson of Peter Milimov, playing in the yard in the canoe, boat made of a single piece of wood and used by local people for fishing. Noviy Vasyugan. Tomsk region. Russia. 2009.Photo 10: Tatiana. The daughter of Peter Milimov. Tatiana and her husband Anatoly resting at home after their workweeks. They work on a rotational basis in oil fields. Tatiana cleans floors at the dormitory of Petroleum company. Anatoly is a worker. Noviy Vasyugan. Tomsk region. Russia. 2009.

Date created: 2009-08-24

Location

Continent: Asia

Country: Russian Federation

Region: Tomsk Region

Address: Noviy Vasyugan

Project

ID: MDP0259

Name: 0164-MDP0259

Description: The languages of the collection, Eastern Khanty and Southern Selkup, (i) are severely endangered: each numbers under 20 last proficient speakers; (ii) have existing legacy data in Tomsk with limited access, which is to be improved as a result of the project; (iii) are characterized by areal contact contiguity; (iv) are ethnographically consistent, with the last traditional culture practitioners. The cooperative project between the University of Zurich and Tomsk State Pedagogical University builds on extended research experience with the respective languages and relevant documentation methodology. The project pursues documentation and analysis of two endangered languages of Western Siberia, Russia in order to gain insight into local processes of area formation.