Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Oh all right...

... something cool. This is a photo of two aboriginal hunters with matchlock rifles and a Laika dog in the Tunguskaya region of Siberia in 1926, part of a great archive compilied by Russian census takers in 1926 (you can "back" into the larger archive). As my friend Vladimir Beregovoy, who sent this to me, wrote:" These pictures were taken at a very last time of relatively free life in Russia, 1926- 27. Communist government was just about to start turning life upside down there. They conducted population census in the North and Siberia. Members of the crew had a keen interest beyond their government's duty and took a lot of pictures, the last pictures from Communist- free Siberia".

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