The singing mountain river, Örteng-Kyrkhy, Eastern Taiga, Khövsgöl, Mongolia, clip 2

Fieldwork, summer 2023. We arrived when this aal was at the spring place named after the River Chüngüg. Then we moved to the higher summer pasture at the place named Örteng-Kyrkhy (the Burnt Ridge), alt. appr. 2200 m. This aal consisted of eight families who belong to different kinship groups: Ak -Soyan, Urat, and Balygshy. The Ak-Soyan and Urat people have kinship ties to the Tozhu-Tyva people and the Balygshy collaborators shared that they are related to the Tyvan groups who live between the rivers Kyzyl-Khem and Balyktyg-Khem.
My research assistant is the Tyva from the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia; he belongs to the Ak-Soyan kinship group and speaks the Tsengel dialect of Tyvan. I belong to the Kyzyl-Soyan branch of the Soyans who were originally from the Khaan-Kögei Mountain, now -- Khan Khokhii Mountain in Mongolia. I am a native speaker of the southern Tyvan dialect.
A brief note on the the linguistic diversity: the Tukha is fully comperehensible with my own dialect and I had a better understanding with the Tukha interlocutors than the speaker of the Tsengel dialect. Before meeting the Tukha (and after reading academic publications about them) I was worried that I will not be able to communicate with them well. I am happy that I was wrong expecting this. So, the Tere-Khöl dialect remains the least comprehensible for me.
It was amazing to understand that my Tukha, Tozhu, and Tere-Khöl interlocutors referred to the same persons and same places in this vast taiga in the borderland between Tyva's eastern border and Lake Khövsgöl (Köpse-Khöl in Tyvan).
My ongoing research with the Tukha and Tozhu-Tyva people is highlighted in the published and upcoming academic papers:
Peemot, V. S. 2024. “An Overview of the Tozhu Tyva Kham Paraphernalia in the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo.” Shaman: Journal of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism 32 (1-2): 5-34.
2024. “The Tožu-Tyva Skin-Sewn Garments in the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo: A Guide Into Lifeworlds of Reindeer Herders.” In Koçoğlu Gündoğlu, V. et al. (eds), Sibirya Çalışmaları, 2, September (upcoming).

[@nicola_renzi]

Wonderful.

[@VictoriaSoyanPeemot]

Thank you!