fishing camp

• Other Authors: Brigitte Pakendorf
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Subjects: Udan; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0018-F405-1

Various photographs showing life in a traditional Even fishing camp (called by the Russian word 'rybalka') in Central Kamchatka: 1) inhabitants of fishing camps and their accompanying family waiting for the once-yearly helicopter that will take them and lots of dry goods (noodles, sugar, oil, etc) from Esso to the various fishing camps 2-3) loading the dry goods from a truck to the helicopter 4, 5) fishing camp 6) smokehouse for smoking and drying salmonid fish 7) big storage house (balagan) 8) small storage house (udan) 9) winter house (chian) 10) traditional yurt (djuu) 11) wooden dogsled stored for the summer 12) dried salmon hanging in yurt 13) baking bread at fire in yurt, in background low teatable 13b) boiling water in kettle hanging from hook over fire 14) trout caught in net 15) drawing in the net 16) caught trout 17) flyfishing 18) cleaning fish in river 19-21) the return journey to Esso: by horse, boat to cross the river, and on foot (and then several hours by car)