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Irkutsk and the Trans-Baikal Territory. They are divided into various tribes or clans, which generally take their names from the locality they frequent. These tribes are subdivided according to kinship. The Buriats are a broad-shouldered race inclined to stoutness, with small slanting eyes, thick lips, high cheek-bones, broad and See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat noses and scanty beards. The men shave their heads and See also:

WEAR

wear a pigtail like the See also:

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese. In summer they See also:

DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress in See also:

SILK

silk and See also:

cotton gowns, in See also:

winter in furs and sheepskins. Their See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal occupation is the rearing of See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and horses. The Buriat See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse is famous for its See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of endurance, and the See also:

ATTACHMENT

attachment between See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master and See also:

animal is very See also:

GREAT

great. At See also:

DEATH

death the horse should, according to their See also:

religion, be sacrificed at its owner's See also:

GRAVE

grave; but the frugal Buriat See also:

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir usually substitutes an old hack, or if he has to tie up the valuable steed to the grave to starve he does so only with the thinnest of cords so that the animal soon breaks his tether and gallops off to join the other horses. In some districts the Buriats have learned See also:

agriculture from the Russians, and in Irkutsk are really better farmers than the latter. They are extraordinarily industrious at manuring and See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation. They are also See also:

CLEVER

clever at trapping and fishing.

In religion the Buriats are mainly Buddhists; and their See also:

head lama (Khambo Lama) lives at the See also:

Goose Lake (Guisinoe Ozero). Others are Shamanists, and their most sacred spot is the Shamanic See also:

stone at the mouth of the See also:

RIVER

river Angar. Some See also:

thou-sands of them around Lake Baikal are Christians. A knowledge of See also:

READING

reading and See also:

writing is See also:

COMMON

common, especially among the Trans-Baikal Buriats, who possess books of their own, chiefly translated from the Tibetan. Their own See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language is Mongolian, and of three distinct dialects. It was in the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century that the Russians first came in See also:

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch with the Buriats, who were See also:

long known by the name of Bratskiye, " Brotherly," given them by the Siberian colonists. In the See also:

TOWN

town of Bratskiyostrog, which See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up around the See also:

block-See also:

house built in 1631 at the confluence of the Angara and Oka to bring them into subjection, this See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title is perpetuated. The Buriats made a vigorous resistance to See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian aggression, but were finally subdued towards the end of the 17th century, and are now among the most peaceful of Russian peoples. See J. G. Gnlelin, See also:

SIBERIA

Siberia; See also:

PIERRE

Pierre See also:

Simon See also:

PALLAS, PETER SIMON (1741–1811)

Pallas, Sammlungen historischer Nachrichten uber See also:

die mongolischen Volkerschaften (St See also:

PETERSBURG

Petersburg, 1776—1802) ; M. A.

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