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Video

  • The alder tree girl
  • The bear hunt
  • The bird cherry song
  • Bird cherry tree shavings in Udihe culture
  • The fairy and the ten bald spirits
  • The flower wife
  • The fox wife
  • The fox with ten tails
  • Gamuli and Amuli
  • Ginseng hunting
  • How I tamed a roe cub
  • How Udihe elders used rotten ash tree
  • A hunting trip
  • The iron bird and the silver bird
  • The moose and the frog
  • My newborn son’s death
  • An old woman and her tiger cub
  • The oriole grandson
  • Running barefoot in winter
  • The seven sisters
  • Sisam Zauli and the hero
  • A tame roe cub named Wasya
  • The tiger for the Udihe people
  • The bear, the tiger and the man
  • The tree with children’s souls
  • The two wives’ song
  • The weasel
  • When Yegdige ate an evil spirit
  • Yegdige in a silk gown
  • Zabdala, an extraordinary snake

People

  • Aleksandr Pionka
  • Klavdiya Kolenchuga
  • Lidiya Simanchuk
  • Nadezhda Kukchenko
  • Tatyana Dvoynova

Images

  • A chipmunk in the taiga forest
  • A house made of tree bark
  • A roe (Capreolus pigargus)
  • A vegetable garden in Krasnyi Yar
  • Agzu hills
  • Agzu rainbow
  • Agzu street
  • Agzu street view
  • Agzu war memorial
  • Back-carrier (burden-frame)
  • Bird-cherry tree shavings used in baby cradles and as kitchen sponge.
  • Bridge over Bikin in Krasnyi Yar
  • Drying the green beans
  • “Fall. Krasnyi Yar village” by Ivan Dunkai. Oil on canvas; 60×80 cm (2010).
  • Handmade gloves
  • Hunter’s winter hat (Ud. bogdo)
  • Krasny Yar
  • Krasny Yar
  • Krasnyi Yar
  • Krasnyi Yar street view
  • Nadezhda Kukchenko
  • Traditional Udihe gown
  • Nadezhda Kukchenko (on the right) with Maria Tolskaya. Krasny Yar, 2006.
  • Polina Sun in an Udihe gown
  • Portrait of Evdokiya Kialundziga by the Udihe artist Ivan Dunkay. Watercolour; 50×50 cm (2006). Image source http://dunkay.ru/galereya
  • Portrait of the Udihe writer Nikolay Dunkay (1930-2004) by his nephew, artist Ivan Dunkay. Oil on canvas, 50×70 cm (2002). Image source http://dunkay.ru/galereya
  • Riverbank in Krasnyi Yar
  • Sable trap
  • Shaman’s belt
  • Sheds on the riverbank in Krasnyi Yar
  • Street view of Krasny Yar
  • Stretcher for sable skin
  • Susan Geonka with his granddaughter in a traditional Udihe cradle (Ud. emuge)
  • Terney hills
  • The river Bikin
  • Traditional embroidery design 1
  • Traditional embroidery design 2
  • Traditional hunting shed
  • Traditional mittens (k’olo), hunting pouch (padu) and girdle (umu)
  • Traditional musical instrument, a kunkai
  • Traditional ornament 4
  • Two kinds of skin scrapers, wu and anangku
  • Udihe boat (Ud. ‘ana, Rus. бат)
  • Udihe dugout boat (Ud. ugda, Rus. оморочка)
  • Udihe footwear unta made by Nadezhda Kukchenko
  • “Udihe Hunter” (with carved wooden idols) by Ivan Dunkay. Watercolour; 30×60 cm (2006). Image source http://dunkay.ru/galereya
  • Udihe pouch made of birch bark
  • Udihe talisman belonging to Nadezhda Kukchenko
  • Wild garlic grown in the vegetable garden
  • “Winter Hunting Hut” by Ivan Dunkay. Oil on canvas; 80×100 cm (2006). Image source http://dunkay.ru/galereya

Resources

  • Bibliography for Udihe
  • Lexical glosses for Udihe (English)
  • Lexical words in Udihe
  • Published texts in Udihe
  • Suffix glosses for Udihe (English)
  • Suffixes in Udihe
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