На реке Кеть / On the River Кет -1912

Дореволюционная Россия в фотографиях
Сибирские экспедиции Кая Доннера.
На реке Кеть
1912

Pre-revolutionary Russia in Photographs
Siberian expeditions of Kai Donner.
On the River Кет
1912

Музыка:
  Сибирские народные песни -
1. То не ягодка по блюдечку катается, свадебная величальная песня
2. Подгорная, наигрыш на балалайке
3.10 Да во кармашках деньжонки шевелятся, свадебная величальная песня.

Music:
Siberian folk songs -
1. That is not a berry ride on a saucer, wedding song
2. Podgornaya, tune on balalaika
3.10 Yes, in the pockets of the little ones are moving - wedding song.


Kai (Karl) Reinhold Donner born in 1888 was a Finnish linguist, ethnographer and politician. He carried out expeditions to the Nenets people (Samoyeds) in Siberia between 1911–1914.

Studying the Finno-Ugrian peoples of Siberia had become an important part of the "national sciences" — Finno-Ugrian philology and ethnology, folklore studies, and archaeology — that arose in answer to the interest in national "roots" that followed the "National Awakening" of the mid-19th century.

Here I present photographs of his expedition in 1912 to the River Ket, a tributary of the River Ob. The Ket River has a length of 1,621 kilometres (1,007 mi) freezes in late October or early November and stays under the ice until late April or early May.
The Ket once served as one of the main river routes in Siberia. A portage near its headwaters allowed one to cross from the Ob River basin to the Yenisei River basin.