1900s Mongolia Photographed By French Researchers

Ulaanbaatar City Museum is hosting a photography exhibition throughout the month of January. The photos on display were taken by Antoine Henry de Bouillane de Lacoste, a French researcher, during his travels in Mongolia from 1909 to 1912 to carry out geographic and ethnographic studies in the Altai Mountains.His trips took him to the Uvs Lake Basin and Selenga River to focus on geographic studies, linguistics, and the religion (particularly shamanism), culture, traditions, and customs of Mongolians.A number of his photographs capture nomadic ways, modes of living, and the faces of...