Oral, visual & maps

Field recordings, museum and photo collections, and historical maps of Buryat lands.

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AMNH — Jesup North Pacific Expedition / Siberian collection

The Siberian ethnographic collection and archival materials of the American Museum of Natural History (the Jesup project, over 5,000 items) — an important Western source on the ethnography of Siberia during the Jesup era; requires separate searching for Buryat materials.

ArchiveOpen access

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British Museum Collection Online

Online catalogue of the British Museum (~2 million object records with images) — a Buryat and Mongolian material fund; the history of its collection requires critical reading.

Visual collectionOpen access

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CREM-CNRS — «Chants et musiques bouriates» (1974) collection

47 archival units of Buryat wedding, feast, and lullaby songs, including the yohor.

Oral testimonyOpen access

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CREM-CNRS — Corpus of personal field notes by Roberte Hamayon (1967–1974)

~19 hours of ethnomusicological field recordings from 1967–1974 (Mongolia/Buryatia/Yakutia) — a unique audio corpus without analogues.

Oral testimonyOpen access

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CREM-CNRS — Fonds Roberte Hamayon

The aggregated media fund of Roberte Hamayon — an access node to all her Buryat field recordings within CREM-CNRS.

ArchiveOpen access

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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

The largest open portal of historical maps, featuring maps of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR/Buryat ASSR and broader Siberia — the best live cartographic resource for the aggregator's 'Maps/Visuals' section.

Map collectionOpen access

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GeoPortOst

A specialised portal of the Institute for Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (Leibniz-IOS) containing over 3,000 digitised and georectified historical maps of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe from the 19th–20th centuries, including Soviet administrative transformations and transport corridors.

Map collectionOpen access

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Kunstkamera Online Collections (MAE RAS)

Online catalogue of the Kunstkamera museum collections (MAE RAS) — large object and photographic collections regarding the Buryats and neighbouring peoples; it is important to preserve data regarding expeditions and collectors.

Visual collectionOpen access

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Library of Congress — Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia and the Russian Far East

The Library of Congress collection includes the album «Peoples of Siberia» with 27 photographs of Yakuts and Buryats, alongside related photo albums/maps — a strong open source of pre-revolutionary and early 20th-century imagery.

Visual collectionOpen access

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Mongolische Landkarten digital (SBB Berlin) [Digital Mongolian Maps (SBB Berlin)]

182 digitised maps of the Mongolian region from the Qing era (1890–1920) from the Hermann Consten collection — a visual archive without global analogues.

Map collectionOpen access

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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge — Buryat collections

The MAA Cambridge online catalogue includes objects and photographs of Barga and Transbaikal Buryats from the Lindgren collection (1931–1933) — a leading resource for the visual anthropology of Shenehen and cross-border Buryats, migration and traditional dress.

Visual collectionOpen access

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Pitt Rivers Museum — online collections

A large online database of items and photographs from the Pitt Rivers Museum; not specialised in Buryats, but available for searching Siberian/Buryat artefacts and serving as a node for future cross-references.

Visual collectionOpen access

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Selenga Buryats 7 (The Language Archive)

A specific entry from The Language Archive — a folklore/testimony bundle from the Selenga region, including evidence of Buryat pastoralism; a clear example that the archive contains substantive rather than merely nominal records.

Oral testimonyOpen access

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Smithsonian NMAI Archive Center — "Buryat Shamanism" (Lawrence Krader)

A Smithsonian NMAI archival record of Lawrence Krader's materials, "Buryat Shamanism" — a specific Western archival dossier on Buryat religion and shamanism, access by appointment only.

ArchiveBy appointment

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The Language Archive — Buryat Oral Testimonies

A corpus of Buryat oral testimonies in The Language Archive (MPI) with sub-collections on Aga, Selenga, Western Buryats, China, and Mongolia — formats WAV and PDF; one of the best digital resources for oral history and dialect geography.

Oral testimonyOpen access

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Themenportal Mongolische Sammlung (SBB Berlin) [Thematic Portal: Mongolian Collection (SBB Berlin)]

A historical collection of Mongolian manuscripts from the Berlin State Library (Consten and Heissig collections).

Visual collectionOpen access